Github user upthewaterspout commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-geode/pull/299#discussion_r90077733 --- Diff: geode-core/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/internal/statistics/StatMonitorHandler.java --- @@ -50,36 +50,26 @@ public StatMonitorHandler() { /** Adds a monitor which will be notified of samples */ public boolean addMonitor(StatisticsMonitor monitor) { - synchronized (this) { - boolean added = false; - List<StatisticsMonitor> oldMonitors = this.monitors; - if (!oldMonitors.contains(monitor)) { - List<StatisticsMonitor> newMonitors = new ArrayList<StatisticsMonitor>(oldMonitors); - added = newMonitors.add(monitor); - this.monitors = Collections.unmodifiableList(newMonitors); - } - if (!this.monitors.isEmpty()) { - startNotifier_IfEnabledAndNotRunning(); - } - return added; + boolean added = false; --- End diff -- I don't think it's safe to remove the synchronization here. You're calling contains followed by add followed by isEmpty. Also, startNotifier_... is dependent on the state of this.monitors. this.monitors could be getting changed by other threads at any point in here.
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