I'm reading a file which conatins 500000 rows. I'm testing to see how multiple thread speed up the process....
private void multiThreadRead(int num){
for(int i=1; i<= num; i++) {
new Thread(readIndivColumn(i),""+i).start();
}
}
private Runnable readIndivColumn(final int colNum){
return new Runnable(){
@Override
public void run() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
try {
long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("From Thread no:"+colNum+" Start time:"+startTime);
RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile("./src/test/test1.csv","r");
String line = "";
//System.out.println("From Thread no:"+colNum);
while((line = raf.readLine()) != null){
//System.out.println(line);
//System.out.println(StatUtils.getCellValue(line, colNum));
}
long elapsedTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;
String formattedTime = String.format("%d min, %d sec",
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(elapsedTime),
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(elapsedTime) -
TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(elapsedTime))
);
System.out.println("From Thread no:"+colNum+" Finished Time:"+formattedTime);
}
catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
System.out.println("From Thread no:"+colNum +"===>"+e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
}
private void sequentialRead(int num){
try{
long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("Start time:"+startTime);
for(int i =0; i < num; i++){
RandomAccessFile raf = new RandomAccessFile("./src/test/test1.csv","r");
String line = "";
while((line = raf.readLine()) != null){
//System.out.println(line);
}
}
long elapsedTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime;
String formattedTime = String.format("%d min, %d sec",
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(elapsedTime),
TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(elapsedTime) -
TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(elapsedTime))
);
System.out.println("Finished Time:"+formattedTime);
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
// TODO: handle exception
}
}
public TesterClass() {
sequentialRead(1);
this.multiThreadRead(1);
}
for num = 1 I get following result:
Start time:1326224619049
Finished Time:2 min, 14 sec
Sequential read ENDS...........
Multi-Thread read starts:
From Thread no:1 Start time:1326224753606
From Thread no:1 Finished Time:2 min, 13 sec
Multi-Thread read ENDS.....
for num = 5 I get following result:
formatted Time:10 min, 20 sec
Sequential read ENDS...........
Multi-Thread read starts:
From Thread no:1 Start time:1326223509574
From Thread no:3 Start time:1326223509574
From Thread no:4 Start time:1326223509574
From Thread no:5 Start time:1326223509574
From Thread no:2 Start time:1326223509574
From Thread no:4 formatted Time:5 min, 54 sec
From Thread no:2 formatted Time:6 min, 0 sec
From Thread no:3 formatted Time:6 min, 7 sec
From Thread no:5 formatted Time:6 min, 23 sec
From Thread no:1 formatted Time:6 min, 23 sec
Multi-Thread read ENDS.....
My question is: shouldn't multi-threaded read takes approx. 2.13 sec ? Can you please explain why is it taking too long with multi-threaded solution?
Thanks in advance.