CUDA Timer problem

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Hello,

I am trying to measure the elapsed time of my kernel with CUDA events. Although whole program finishes its execution in about 2 sec, cuda elapsed time shows 6.88128e+006. As far as i know, cudaEventElapsedTime returns in millisecond. But this value shows something like 6.881.280 milliseconds which is about 6881 seconds. I do not understand what is happening. I am attaching related code snap as well. Any idea?

Many thanks for your time

cudaEventCreate (&start);

	cudaEventCreate (&stop);

	float total_time = 0.0;

	while(genNumber < MAX_GENERATION && h_best > DESIRED_FITNESS){

		cudaEventRecord (start,0);

		evolvePopulation<<<MAX_POPULATION / BLOCK_SIZE, BLOCK_SIZE, trainDataSize * sizeof(ANNDATA) + BLOCK_SIZE *	  sizeof(float)>>>(d_individuals,d_training_data,trainDataSize,d_random,d_f

itnessArry, d_result,d_best);

		

		

		cudaEventRecord (stop,0);

		cudaEventSynchronize (stop);

		cudaEventElapsedTime (&elapsedTime, start, stop);

		

		cudaMemcpy (&h_best,d_best,sizeof(float), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);	

		cudaThreadSynchronize ();

		total_time +=elapsedTime;

		perform<<" Generation : "<<genNumber<<" elapsed time : "<<elapsedTime<<" Total time : "<<total_time<<endl;

		cout<<"Generation : "<<genNumber<<" Min Fitness: "<<h_best<<endl;

		++genNumber;

		

	}