2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 1daf3a7..ea26c81 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ TODO: memory fences for clang
         - strategically import macros from libecb and mark rarely-used functions
           as cache-cold (saving almost 2k code size on typical amd64 setups).
         - add Symbols.ev and Symbols.event files, that were missing.
+        - fix backend_mintime value for epoll (was 1/1024, is 1/1000 now).
 
 4.04 Wed Feb 16 09:01:51 CET 2011
 	- fix two problems in the native win32 backend, where reuse of fd's
diff --git a/ev_epoll.c b/ev_epoll.c
index 240b7b9..b4e02c2 100644
--- a/ev_epoll.c
+++ b/ev_epoll.c
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ epoll_init (EV_P_ int flags)
 
   fcntl (backend_fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
 
-  backend_mintime = 1./1024.; /* epoll does sometimes return early, this is just to avoid the worst */
+  backend_mintime = 1e-3; /* epoll does sometimes return early, this is just to avoid the worst */
   backend_modify  = epoll_modify;
   backend_poll    = epoll_poll;