8287113: JFR: Periodic task thread uses period for method sampling events

[alexeybakhtin]

Clean backport from JDK11
I'd like to backport it to improve resource usage when running an application with the JFR default profile.

All JFR-related JTREG tests passed

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Issue

• JDK-8287113: JFR: Periodic task thread uses period for method sampling events (Bug - P3)

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