snooze(5) works more or less fine for standard threads, but is a very bad

idea for real-time threads. They could completely hog the CPU in this
case. Thanks to Marcus for investigating!


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@16161 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96

src/system/libroot/posix/malloc/arch-specific.cpp

@@ -317,10 +317,10 @@ hoardUnlock(hoardLockType &lock)
 void
 hoardYield(void)
 {
-	// A thread's quantum is definitely larger than this, so this is
-	// an expensive yield function.
+	// We need to snooze longer than a thread quantum (3ms) to ensure
+	// real-time threads won't hog the CPU completely
 	// ToDo: we should have a real one in the kernel
-	snooze(5);
+	snooze(4000);
 }
 
 }	// namespace BPrivate