[Vm-dev] pthread_setschedparam failed: Not owner

[Tobias Pape]

> On 30.03.2020, at 14:56, stes <stes at telenet.be> wrote:
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> This is not on FreeBSD but on Solaris ... (a different UNIX).  I see there's
> a different subject thread for people who try to make a FreeBSD version as
> well.
> 

Sorry, I mixed those, my bad.
But Solaris is also nice!
Btw, which Solaris?

Best regards
	-Tobias

> Perhaps a FreeBSD port is more difficult than a Solaris port, because my
> understanding is that the Solaris "port" is not so hard because Solaris was
> in the past well supported by Squeak.
> 
> There were Solaris ports in the past so it's just a matter of making sure it
> keeps working.
> 
> My understanding of the pthread_setschedparam() issue, is that although it
> is supported on Solaris to set the priority on IA, there's no guarantuee it
> has the desired effect in IA class.  Theoretically it should be better in
> RT.
> 
> But in practice I don't see a big difference,  although that I could do some
> "benchmark" or test.
> 
> Like the code that was posted by Eliot Miranda.
> 
> But I don't quite get the idea of that code, am I supposed to test in a
> Transcript window ? what should be the result in RT class versus non-RT
> class etc.  ...