gij/eclipse sets SCHED_RR scheduling policy, hogs machine.

[Andrew Haley]

David Daney writes:
 > 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.

Well, at least one kernel engineer seems to think that's what should
be done.  I accept that it might not work, but there's notthing better
that will, so ...

Andrew.