From c2b0d76bf3387cd4841acde40f232051d4ddf23f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:54:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #11766: increase countdown waiting for a pool of
 processes to start up.  Hopefully fixes transient buildbot failures.

---
 Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
index 0df2f7803bb..fe19de03715 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_multiprocessing.py
@@ -1126,7 +1126,8 @@ class _TestPoolWorkerLifetime(BaseTestCase):
         # Refill the pool
         p._repopulate_pool()
         # Wait until all workers are alive
-        countdown = 5
+        # (countdown * DELTA = 5 seconds max startup process time)
+        countdown = 50
         while countdown and not all(w.is_alive() for w in p._pool):
             countdown -= 1
             time.sleep(DELTA)