Hui Huang wrote:
Joseph Shraibman wrote:
Alexander V. Konstantinou wrote:
Actually, thread priorities work fine in Linux.
No, they don't, not with the latest sun jdk on redhat 8.0.
Thread priority is just a hint (same applies to Thread.yield()).
While the jvm authors can't do anything about the kernel ignoring the priority, they *can*
do something about Thread.yield(): make it the equivalent to sleep(1)
kernel space. JDK passes the priority information to the kernel,
How?
but they are ignored.
It may sound like a surprise, but most of the time kernel scheduler
can do a better job than human in prioritizing jobs.
Um, no. The few cases I would set a priority I would have a good reason.
BTW does the jvm give threads with higher prio prefrence when delivering notify()'s?
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