Fairness of thread scheduling?

[Sean Kelly]

Jason House wrote:
> 
> Any ideas what could be going wrong?  I've tried adding a try block 
> surrounding the run method of the worker threads to output any silent 
> failures (somehow).  Since I see nothing failing and I see the decreased 
> performance per thread, I'm assuming thread starvation is occurring.  Is 
> this expected behavior?

I think the default scheduling option on Posix is implementation 
defined.  The pre-defined options are FIFO and round-robin however, and 
I'd guess your system is using FIFO?


Sean