/** * Time a multi-threaded access to a cache. * * @return the timing stopwatch */ private <V> StopWatch timeMultiThreaded( String id, final Map<Integer, V> map, ValueFactory<V> factory) throws InterruptedException { StopWatch stopWatch = new StopWatch(id); for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++) { map.put(i, factory.newValue(i)); } Thread[] threads = new Thread[30]; stopWatch.start("Running threads"); for (int threadIndex = 0; threadIndex < threads.length; threadIndex++) { threads[threadIndex] = new Thread("Cache access thread " + threadIndex) { @Override public void run() { for (int j = 0; j < 1000; j++) { for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { map.get(i); } } } }; } for (Thread thread : threads) { thread.start(); } for (Thread thread : threads) { if (thread.isAlive()) { thread.join(2000); } } stopWatch.stop(); return stopWatch; }