Guava教程-RateLimiter

简介

Google Guava library中提供了RateLimiter类，它经常用于限制对一些物理资源或者逻辑资源的访问速率。与Semaphore 相比，Semaphore 限制了并发访问的数量而不是使用速率。

RateLimiter类定义如下：

com.google.common.util.concurrent.RateLimiter

@ThreadSafe
@Beta
public abstract class RateLimiter
extends Object

Guava Docs关于RateLimiter介绍如下：

A rate limiter. Conceptually, a rate limiter distributes permits at a configurable rate. Each acquire() blocks if necessary until a permit is available, and then takes it. Once acquired, permits need not be released.

Rate limiters are often used to restrict the rate at which some physical or logical resource is accessed. This is in contrast to Semaphore which restricts the number of concurrent accesses instead of the rate (note though that concurrency and rate are closely related, e.g. see Little’s Law).

A RateLimiter is defined primarily by the rate at which permits are issued. Absent additional configuration, permits will be distributed at a fixed rate, defined in terms of permi