Thread Question

[Bin Zhao]

TRUE or FALSE
A thread will stop running if another thread with higher priority enters the runnable state.
I think it's false because time sharing system don't allow this.
Anyone give his opinion?

[rob moreland]

I would think the currently running thread would have to be moved to the ready state first. Then when the next thread is chosen from the runnable thread the one with the highest priority will be moved from ready to running.
But in any good OS this would happen pretty fast.
By the way not all OS using time sharing as the scheduling system.
rob moreland

[ashwini srinivasan]

If another thread of highier priority is started, java makes the lower priority(currently running) thread to wait.
If more than one thread exists with the same priority, Java quickly switches between them in round-robin fashion BUT only if the operating system uses time-slicing.
In preemptive scheduling the highest priority thread continues to run until it dies, waits, or is preempted by a thread of higher priorit.