Negative durations?

[Y.S.Ramakrishna at Sun.COM]

Neo Jia wrote:
> Is that because you are going the call minor GC but failed and switch
> to a full GC? I remember I have seen something like this before.

No that's printed as GC-- (when using the parallel gc collector).
This is different, see the follow-up from David Holmes.

-- ramki

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> Thanks,
> Neo
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> On Jan 3, 2008 7:34 AM, Keith Holdaway <Keith.Holdaway at sas.com> wrote:
>> I have Google'd, but found no explanation for negative GC pauses:
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>> 8829.092: [GC 426933K->375154K(517760K), 0.0117606 secs]
>> 8830.373: [GC 427634K->376403K(517760K), 0.0833584 secs]
>> 8830.569: [GC 428883K->377941K(517760K), -0.6576383 secs]
>> 8831.110: [GC 430421K->379175K(517760K), 0.0161026 secs]
>> 8831.548: [GC 431628K->379968K(517760K), 0.0134666 secs]
>> 8831.942: [GC 432448K->379701K(517760K), -0.1804611 secs]
>> 8832.718: [GC 432180K->382348K(517760K), 0.0836352 secs]
>> 8832.303: [GC 434828K->382927K(517760K), 0.6898266 secs]
>> 8833.482: [GC 435407K->384775K(517760K), -0.1111267 secs]
>>
>>
>> Keith R Holdaway
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