From 619d26de6fe8eb9ec2f2e4e046be690d95ab40ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Don Anderson <dda@ddanderson.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 19:14:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Release Python's global lock (GIL) before sleeping to allow
 other threads to grab the lock as needed.

---
 lang/python/wiredtiger.i | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lang/python/wiredtiger.i b/lang/python/wiredtiger.i
index 974118d0f61..8eb1c59ee1e 100644
--- a/lang/python/wiredtiger.i
+++ b/lang/python/wiredtiger.i
@@ -339,7 +339,9 @@ retry:
 	if (result != 0 && result != EBUSY)
 		SWIG_ERROR_IF_NOT_SET(result);
         else if (result == EBUSY) {
+		SWIG_PYTHON_THREAD_BEGIN_ALLOW;
                 __wt_sleep(0, 10000);
+		SWIG_PYTHON_THREAD_END_ALLOW;
                 goto retry;
         }
 }