Java does not provide for preemption of a thread with the same
priority. If you run one thread in a tight loop then you can
never be sure the other one will get to run.
Mo DeJong
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On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Chris Raser wrote:
>
> Greetings all! I've got a little problem with the handling of
> threads on my machine. (I'm using RH5.1 w/ your jdk117)
>
> I'm finding that, given two threads of the same priority, the one
> that's currently getting CPU time will starve the other one until an
> explicit yield() or sleep() is reached. Is there any way to fix this?
>
> I've got a reasonably elegant workaround, but it's a workaround
> nonetheless, and I'm reluctant to make it a standard part of my code. (As
> I'll have to do in order to ensure that my code will work on all three of
> the platforms that it will be running on.)
>
> Any help or insights you guys can offer would be appreciated.
> Thanks!
>
> -chris
>
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