From 494ae50ad3fe8c978a814648cbc0344f85310918 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Darnell <ben@bendarnell.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 14:00:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Increase maximum IOLoop poll timeout.

I believe the previous 0.2s limit was there to work around an old bug in
the add_callback waker that has since been fixed.
---
 tornado/ioloop.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tornado/ioloop.py b/tornado/ioloop.py
index 6fd29a02..4ed638e7 100644
--- a/tornado/ioloop.py
+++ b/tornado/ioloop.py
@@ -241,8 +241,7 @@ class IOLoop(object):
         self._thread_ident = thread.get_ident()
         self._running = True
         while True:
-            # Never use an infinite timeout here - it can stall epoll
-            poll_timeout = 0.2
+            poll_timeout = 3600.0
 
             # Prevent IO event starvation by delaying new callbacks
             # to the next iteration of the event loop.