It could be that the thread's ThreadGroup has a maximum priority of 5. A thread's priority cannot be higher than it's thread-group max- priority.
It could be that some code you didn't code, but call instead, that sets the thread priority to 5. On May 10, 11:37 pm, Krishnakumar Ramachandran <krishnakumar.ramachand...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried that too. But still when I try to query my audio thread's priority, > it still shows its priority as 5. > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Streets Of Boston > <flyingdutc...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > What about Thread.setPriority(...) ? > > > That seems to be working for me. > > When, using the above method, i set the priority of a background- > > thread too high it has an impact on the GUI (it gets sluggish). It > > must be doing something... > > > On May 10, 9:20 pm, Krishnakumar Ramachandran > > <krishnakumar.ramachand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi has anyone got any idea on this? > > > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:56 PM, KK < > > krishnakumar.ramachand...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > I have a multithreaded streaming app which has mainly the following 5 > > > > threads > > > > > 1 Main App(UI) Thread > > > > 1 controller thread (in native) > > > > 1 audio decoder thread (in native) > > > > 1 video decoder thread(in native) > > > > 1 thread to query the head position of audio (in Java) > > > > Apart from this I have video rendering with OpenGL. > > > > > My problem is, if I query the thread priority using the > > > > Thread.getPriority method (my native threads make callbacks to Java > > > > and I am making the query at that point of time), I am getting the > > > > priority of each of them as 5. For my audio query thread (the last one > > > > in the list) I am explicitly setting the priority using > > > > Process.setThreadPriority(Process.THREAD_PRIORITY_URGENT_AUDIO); > > > > > Also for my decoder threads, I am giving higher priority than my > > > > controller thread(using pthread APIs in native). But still finally all > > > > of them seem to have same priority. > > > > > Can anyone please tell me what is wrong here. Also what should I be > > > > doing to increase the priority of my threads(both from Java and > > > > native). > > > > > Thanks > > > > KK > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to > > android-developers@googlegroups.com > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > <android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > > groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en