From 2d650bd627de8b6f8b1413261f03c2078d3f8d65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Scott Nonnenberg <scott@nonnenberg.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:47:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Further workaround to try to push node.js event loop forward
 (#1511)

FREEBIE
---
 preload.js | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/preload.js b/preload.js
index d43f021ae..0ee10e872 100644
--- a/preload.js
+++ b/preload.js
@@ -39,5 +39,10 @@
   window.nodeXMLHttpRequest = require("./js/XMLHttpRequest").XMLHttpRequest;
   window.nodeWebSocket = require("websocket").w3cwebsocket;
 
+  // Linux seems to periodically let the event loop stop, so this is a global workaround
+  setInterval(function() {
+    setImmediate(function() {});
+  }, 1000);
+
   window.EmojiConvertor = require('emoji-js');
 })();