diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/RequestHandlerBase.java b/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/RequestHandlerBase.java
index 18c17504b6b..b5b8149576e 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/RequestHandlerBase.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/RequestHandlerBase.java
@@ -37,15 +37,13 @@ import java.net.URL;
 public abstract class RequestHandlerBase implements SolrRequestHandler, SolrInfoMBean {
 
   // statistics
-  // TODO: should we bother synchronizing these, or is an off-by-one error
-  // acceptable every million requests or so?
   volatile long numRequests;
   volatile long numErrors;
+  volatile long totalTime = 0;
   protected NamedList initArgs = null;
   protected SolrParams defaults;
   protected SolrParams appends;
   protected SolrParams invariants;
-  volatile long totalTime = 0;
   long handlerStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
 
   /** shorten the class references for utilities */
@@ -108,7 +106,7 @@ public abstract class RequestHandlerBase implements SolrRequestHandler, SolrInfo
       o = args.get("invariants");
       if (o != null && o instanceof NamedList) {
         invariants = SolrParams.toSolrParams((NamedList)o);
-      }
+      } 
     }
   }