HADOOP-844. Send metrics messages on a fixed-delay schedule instead of a fixed-rate schedule. Contributed by David Bowen.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/hadoop/trunk@489707 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

CHANGES.txt

@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     sub-processes, so that libhadoop.a is found.
     (Arun C Murthy via cutting)
 
+43. HADOOP-844.  Send metrics messages on a fixed-delay schedule
+    instead of a fixed-rate schedule.  (David Bowen via cutting)
 
 Release 0.9.2 - 2006-12-15
 

src/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics/spi/AbstractMetricsContext.java

@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractMetricsContext implements MetricsContext {
                 }
             };
             long millis = period * 1000;
-            timer.schedule(task, millis, millis);
+            timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, millis, millis);
          }
     }