gij/eclipse sets SCHED_RR scheduling policy, hogs machine.

[David Daney]

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.