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scheduleAtFixedRate method - change TimeUnit argument?

I'm using the SchduledExecuterService class to run some code repeatedly using the scheduleAtFixedRate() method.

exec.scheduleAtFixedRate(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        //some code
    }
}, 1, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

The problem is that I want to alter the TimeUnit argument to be a certain fraction of a second, depending on a variable, i.e. TimeUnit.SECONDS*num; But the method doesn't take longs as parameters, only fixed TimeUnits. Any suggestions?

Solution

  • Why don't you play with period parameter ?

    long periodInMicroseconds = 16667;
exec.scheduleAtFixedRate(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        //some code
    }
}, 0, periodInMicroseconds, TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS);