Yes, the same priority. See:

The VM may have issues with clock jitter due to the heartbeat thread
not running at elevated priority. An exit may be appropriate in some
cases, but for most users the above warning is sufficient.

https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/32f321583c69ca27e61ffaff6decc2a3e4b6ca5e

Cheers,
-- Pavel

2017-03-30 11:51 GMT+02:00 Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk@gmail.com>:

2017-03-29 20:29 GMT+02:00 Pavel Krivanek <pavel.krivanek@gmail.com>:
Hi,

I want to let you know that the SSH (git@...) support in Iceberg on Linux VM now works with the latest threaded VM (get.pharo.org/vmTLatest60). The threaded VM now runs without root priviledges nor special configuration of the system.��

And what the logic now? Heartbeat and VM are in same priory?