# Threading 1.3: Run timer on free thread

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/threading-1-3-run-timer-on-free-thread/27110>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** multithreading\
**Created:** [August 2, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/threading-1-3-run-timer-on-free-thread/27110 "2019-08-02T12:56:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobias.knopp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tobias.knopp/32/7551_2.png) [@tobias.knopp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tobias.knopp)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/threading-1-3-run-timer-on-free-thread/27110/1 "2019-08-02T12:56:01Z")

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I am trying out the new threading infrastructure (1.3) and have code that uses a `Timer`. It seems that the timer currently is not scheduled on a different thread than the main thread. Is there a way to change that?

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**Author:** ![jpsamaroo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jpsamaroo/32/46804_2.png) [@jpsamaroo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jpsamaroo)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/threading-1-3-run-timer-on-free-thread/27110/2 "2019-08-02T14:33:41Z")

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Just for completeness, can you post an MWE of the code you’re running, as well as details about how you determined that it’s not running on the shared scheduler?