Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:41:12 -0500
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:36:36 GMT
From: Sergej Melnik <k961909@dcs.kingston.ac.uk>
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In-Reply-To: <199603151437.PAA06152@pico.crbm.cnrs-mop.fr> (message from Lincoln Stein on Fri, 15 Mar 1996 15:37:40 +0100)
Subject: Re: Thread.yield() doesn't
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> The problem is that time-slicing doesn't seem to be implemented on the
> Linux platform.  The first thread grabs the CPU and holds onto it
> until its inner read-and-parse loop is done.  Very annoying.

Try to set the thread's priority to Thread.MAX_PRIORITY.
Concerning similar question you may want to see Russ Ethington's (many thanks for him)
programming tutorials (http://users.aol.com/thingtone/workshop/tutorial.htm).

Regards,

Sergej.