diff --git a/source/eventcore/drivers/epoll.d b/source/eventcore/drivers/epoll.d
index 99718a4..baa8d41 100644
--- a/source/eventcore/drivers/epoll.d
+++ b/source/eventcore/drivers/epoll.d
@@ -34,11 +34,12 @@ final class EpollEventDriver : PosixEventDriver {
 		import std.algorithm : min;
 		//assert(Fiber.getThis() is null, "processEvents may not be called from within a fiber!");
 
-		auto ts = timeout.toTimeVal;
-
 		//print("wait %s", m_events.length);
-		auto ret = epoll_wait(m_epoll, m_events.ptr, cast(int)m_events.length, timeout == Duration.max ? -1 : cast(int)min(timeout.total!"msecs", int.max));
-		//print("wait done %s", ret);
+		long tomsec;
+		if (timeout == Duration.max) tomsec = long.max;
+		else tomsec = (timeout.total!"hnsecs" + 9999) / 10_000;
+		auto ret = epoll_wait(m_epoll, m_events.ptr, cast(int)m_events.length, tomsec > int.max ? -1 : cast(int)tomsec);
+		print("wait done %s", ret);
 
 		if (ret > 0) {
 			foreach (ref evt; m_events[0 .. ret]) {