Thread concurrency .. What am I missing?

[Ebodee]

I have spent the better part of the day, albeit fairly diverted on the topic of multithreading and trying to get my threads to work concurrently. They appear to operate in much the same way a normal sequenced program runs.

What am I doing wrong? I am using a runnable interface, normal thread creation, and using sleep timers but my novice level is getting me nowhere.

[Fubarable]

What am I doing wrong?

It could be an extra semi-colon on line 42, a call to run() instead of start(), over-use of join(), but for me, then main thing that you're doing wrong is that you're not showing us any of your code. That's about the best most of us can do with the info provided.

[JosAH]

... and sleeping Threads are also a concurrency killer.

kind regards,

Jos

[Ebodee]

Ok, fair point, not much help I can receive without code. Some background. I am just starting to learn multithreading so tinkering is what I have done since the Java course I am taking this semester is algorithms but always great opportunity to use a project to learn something new.

My implementation is through the Runnable interface and I submit my code here with the sleep() lines removed per the previous suggestion.

public interface Runnable {

    public abstract void run() ;

}

 public void run()
    {
        int count = 10,enQueueCounter = 1;

        do
        {
            int nextPoisson = linkedList.Poisson(expectedValue);
            for (int i = 0; i < nextPoisson; i++)
            {
                linkedList.enQueue("Manny" + enQueueCounter, 0);  // enQueue the node
                enQueueCounter += 1;
                count--;
            }

            linkedList.setTime();        // set the wait time

            int temp = linkedList.getTime();
            avgWaitTime = temp / enQueueCounter;
            System.out.println("Average wait time is: " + avgWaitTime + " (s)");
                      
        }
        while(count > 0);

        System.out.println(enQueueCounter - 1 + " person queued");
        linkedList.list();
    }

 public void run()
   {   
        for (seconds = 0; seconds < 5; seconds++)
        {
            System.out.println(toString());

        }
  
       
   }

public static void main(String[] args){

        MyList linkedList = new MyList();

        Arrivals newArrivals = new Arrivals("Arrivals", 0.5);

        Server newServer = new Server("Server");

        newArrivals.getObject(linkedList); // reference passing

        newArrivals.run();
        newServer.run();
}

I may not even be implementing mutilthreading. The threads are running sequentially and here is my problem.

[JosAH]

I don't see any Thread objects in your program code ...

kind regards,

Jos

[Ebodee]

I decided to use the Executor server and run my threads through that also using the default Runnable interface instead of supplying one.