made modifications to prevent double-setting the same priorities. Kept any/all hard-coded changes from Alpha for anything that didn't already have a setting created by Kenny. Essentially this is a merger of the two repos from Alpha and Kenny, keeping the changes that are relevant from each, while also keeping the thread priority settings in settings.json.

This will give us the best of both worlds (in theory), and dramatically improved overall network performance.

src/main/java/org/qortal/controller/Synchronizer.java

@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ public class Synchronizer extends Thread {
 	@Override
 	public void run() {
 		Thread.currentThread().setName("Synchronizer");
-		Thread.currentThread().setPriority(MAX_PRIORITY);
 
 		if (Settings.getInstance().isLite()) {
 			// Lite nodes don't need to sync

src/main/java/org/qortal/controller/repository/AtStatesPruner.java

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ public class AtStatesPruner implements Runnable {
 	@Override
 	public void run() {
 		Thread.currentThread().setName("AT States pruner");
-		Thread.currentThread().setPriority(MIN_PRIORITY);
 
 		if (Settings.getInstance().isLite()) {
 			// Nothing to prune in lite mode

src/main/java/org/qortal/controller/repository/AtStatesTrimmer.java

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ public class AtStatesTrimmer implements Runnable {
 	@Override
 	public void run() {
 		Thread.currentThread().setName("AT States trimmer");
-		Thread.currentThread().setPriority(MIN_PRIORITY);
 
 		if (Settings.getInstance().isLite()) {
 			// Nothing to trim in lite mode

src/main/java/org/qortal/controller/repository/BlockArchiver.java

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ public class BlockArchiver implements Runnable {
 
 	public void run() {
 		Thread.currentThread().setName("Block archiver");
-		Thread.currentThread().setPriority(NORM_PRIORITY);
 
 		if (!Settings.getInstance().isArchiveEnabled() || Settings.getInstance().isLite()) {
 			return;

src/main/java/org/qortal/controller/repository/BlockPruner.java

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ public class BlockPruner implements Runnable {
 	@Override
 	public void run() {
 		Thread.currentThread().setName("Block pruner");
-		Thread.currentThread().setPriority(NORM_PRIORITY);
 
 		if (Settings.getInstance().isLite()) {
 			// Nothing to prune in lite mode

src/main/java/org/qortal/controller/repository/OnlineAccountsSignaturesTrimmer.java

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ public class OnlineAccountsSignaturesTrimmer implements Runnable {
 
 	public void run() {
 		Thread.currentThread().setName("Online Accounts trimmer");
-		Thread.currentThread().setPriority(NORM_PRIORITY);
 
 		if (Settings.getInstance().isLite()) {
 			// Nothing to trim in lite mode