Re: HotSpot crashed on Linux

>Every Timer object you create in your code (implicitly) creates a 
>thread.  I don't think these threads go away till the timer objects get 
>garbage collected.  It's much better to have a single timer object with 
>multiple enqueued TimerTasks than a huge number of Timer objects...
On the other paw, only one nugget of work can run at a time with a
single Timer.  
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