diff --git a/IOMC/RandomEngine/test/TestRandomNumberServiceGlobal.cc b/IOMC/RandomEngine/test/TestRandomNumberServiceGlobal.cc
index 352fdb6c594a6..97e344a9ad10b 100644
--- a/IOMC/RandomEngine/test/TestRandomNumberServiceGlobal.cc
+++ b/IOMC/RandomEngine/test/TestRandomNumberServiceGlobal.cc
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ TestRandomNumberServiceGlobal::analyze(edm::StreamID streamID, edm::Event const&
 
   // Add some sleep to encourage all the streams to get events to process.
   if(nStreams_ > 1) {
-    sleep(0.025);
+    usleep(25000);
   }
 
   if(dump_) {