From 87de905aef950cff09b35337298dfe12b18f0eba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlos Cordoba <ccordoba12@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:27:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] IPython Console: Increase time to detect if a kernel is alive

---
 spyder/plugins/ipythonconsole.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spyder/plugins/ipythonconsole.py b/spyder/plugins/ipythonconsole.py
index ad63f443428..9ace28e62e3 100644
--- a/spyder/plugins/ipythonconsole.py
+++ b/spyder/plugins/ipythonconsole.py
@@ -1297,6 +1297,10 @@ def create_kernel_manager_and_kernel_client(self, connection_file):
         # Kernel client
         kernel_client = kernel_manager.client()
 
+        # Increase time to detect if a kernel is alive
+        # See Issue 3444
+        kernel_client.hb_channel.time_to_dead = 6.0
+
         return kernel_manager, kernel_client
 
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