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Re: gij/eclipse sets SCHED_RR scheduling policy, hogs machine.

From: David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>
To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:09:06 -0700
Subject: Re: gij/eclipse sets SCHED_RR scheduling policy, hogs machine.
References: <17090.32686.812423.491502@zapata.pink>

Andrew Haley wrote:

For some bizarre reason we're setting SCHED_RR when we do
java::lang::Thread::setPriority ().  I cannot begin to imagine why
anyone ever thought this might be a good idea.

IIRC the current implementation of Thread.setPriority(int) does not work on Linux with SCHED_OTHER. Perhaps it was an attempt to make it work.

We have an ugly local hack that uses setpriority() but it does not work with NPTL.

David Daney.

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