From 219c7b90d0d2e1eda3a76e2d777240c005c658cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Krah <skrah@bytereef.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 23:21:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #15599: Increase the switch interval. Several systems
 cannot handle gil_interval == 1 in extreme situations.

---
 Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py b/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py
index 4a5d7bee099..0528b139f7b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threaded_import.py
@@ -225,11 +225,9 @@ class ThreadedImportTests(unittest.TestCase):
 @reap_threads
 def test_main():
     old_switchinterval = None
-    # Issue #15599: FreeBSD/KVM cannot handle gil_interval == 1.
-    new_switchinterval = 0.00001 if 'freebsd' in sys.platform else 0.00000001
     try:
         old_switchinterval = sys.getswitchinterval()
-        sys.setswitchinterval(new_switchinterval)
+        sys.setswitchinterval(1e-5)
     except AttributeError:
         pass
     try: