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.

diff --git a/tornado/ioloop.py b/tornado/ioloop.py
index 6fd29a029f061d561d561158d59ef93cb2a4312e..4ed638e7eba15110f0f6e036c7d3d23f7c12d0fe 100644 (file)
--- 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.