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Thread.sleep()
method can be used to pause the execution of current thread for specified time in milliseconds. The argument value for milliseconds can’t be negative, else it throws IllegalArgumentException
. There is another overloaded method
sleep(long millis, int nanos)
that can be used to pause the execution of current thread for specified milliseconds and nanoseconds. The allowed nano second value is between 0 and 999999.
Here is a simple program where Thread.sleep()
is used to pause the main thread execution for 2 seconds. ThreadSleep.java
package com.journaldev.threads;
public class ThreadSleep {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
Thread.sleep(2000);
System.out.println("Sleep time in ms = "+(System.currentTimeMillis()-start));
}
}
If you will run the above program, you will notice that the thread sleep time it prints is slightly greater than 2000. This is caused by how thread sleep works and operating system specific implementation of thread scheduler.
Thread.sleep() interacts with the thread scheduler to put the current thread in wait state for specified period of time. Once the wait time is over, thread state is changed to runnable state and wait for the CPU for further execution. So the actual time that current thread sleep depends on the thread scheduler that is part of operating system.
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Sir can you please explain this topic { waiting of child thread until completing main thread}
- Pradeep Singh
what is difference between t1.run() and t1.start()?
- Shweta
how the execution of two threads goes when sleep is not there? how does thread scheduler perform in this case…?
- Swapna
how do we come to know that, how much time we have to provide to the threads for sleep or wait. If we are working on big projects.
- Ishant
Suppose if a thread is kept in sleep and after completing sleep mode time the processor is running another thread. then will the current thread stops and executes thread that completed sleep mode or thread that is in sleep mode executed after current running process is terminated please explain it in detail I am new to java
- Pavan
long start = System.currentTimeMillis(); what does this line have in the code?
- FREDY ORLANDO MARCELO CASTIBLANCO
Thread One = new Thread( ()-> {}); What is the difference between calling One.sleep() and Thread.sleep();
- James
Hi Pankaj, I modified your code like below, and I can see same sleep time after every execution – long sleepTime = 999; System.out.println("Going to sleep for "+sleepTime); long start = 0L; try { start = System.currentTimeMillis(); Thread.sleep(sleepTime); } catch (InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } System.out.println("Sleep time in ms = "+(System.currentTimeMillis()-start)); I guess, the difference is coming due to the startTime capture statement execution and the actual sleep statement, if you keep them one after the other, you won’t see the difference anymore. I understand that your explanation is correct too, because all thread execution depends on how OS allow them. Thanks
- Punit
Hi Pankaj, Your blog is very good and more informative. But its very good if you provide link to export to pdf. Thanks Maruthi
- maruthi
class TestCallRun extends Thread{ public void run(){ for(int i=1;i<5;i++){ try{Thread.sleep(5000);}catch(InterruptedException e){System.out.println(e);} System.out.println(i); } } public static void main(String args[]){ TestCallRun2 t1=new TestCallRun2(); TestCallRun2 t2=new TestCallRun2(); t1.start(); t2.run(); } } why the output of above program is same as when we call t1.start(); t2.start(). 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 but output is different when we call t1.run();t2.run(); 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 according to my understating output of t1.start(); t2.run() should be 1 --t1 thread 1 --t2 thread 2 --t2 thread 3 --t2 thread 4 --t2 thread 2 --t1 thread 3 --t1 thread 4 --t1 thread
- Nitin