Multi-Threading: Preemptive?

1999-02-24 Thread Chris Raser
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 slee

Re: Multi-Threading: Preemptive?

1999-02-24 Thread Chris Raser
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, David Craig wrote: > Java doesn't define how threads of the same priority share cpu time In > some VM implementations the sharing is fair. On others, such as the port > you're probably using, one thread preempts the other indefinitely. > > Congrats on an elegant workaround.

Re: Multi-Threading: Preemptive?

1999-02-24 Thread Chris Raser
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Moses DeJong wrote: > I do not mean to rip on your code or anything, but if you require a Not at all. I'm pretty new (the last 3-4 years) to programming, and most of that has been in persuit of a CS degree, so I haven't had much of a chance to do any real coding. :(