Question

I’m trying out Java 7’s ThreadLocalRandom and see that it is generating exactly the same random numbers across multiple threads.

Here is my code, in which I create 5 threads and each thread prints out 5 random numbers:

//5 threads
for(int i = 0; i < 5 ; i++) {
    final Thread thread = new Thread() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            System.out.print(Thread.currentThread().getName()+":");

            //each thread prints 5 random numbers
            for(int j = 0 ; j < 5; j++) {
                final int random = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(1,100);
                System.out.print(random + ",");
            }
            System.out.println();
        }
    };
    thread.start();
    thread.join();
}

Output:

Thread-0:1,93,45,75,29,
Thread-1:1,93,45,75,29,
Thread-2:1,93,45,75,29,
Thread-3:1,93,45,75,29,
Thread-4:1,93,45,75,29,

Why am I getting the same random numbers for each thread and for every execution of the program?

Answer 1

Seems like there’s an open bug regarding this issue. See here and here