Question

Write a note on Thread priority.

Answer 1

Thread Priorities

In the Java programming language, every thread has a priority. By default, a thread inherits the priority of its parent thread. You can increase or decrease the priority of any thread with the setPriority method. You can set the priority to any value between MIN_PRIORITY (defined as 1 in the Thread class) and MAX_PRIORITY (defined as 10). NORM_PRIORITY is defined as 5

Whenever the thread-scheduler has a chance to pick a new thread, it generally picks the highest-priority thread that is currently runnable.