diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
index c055900584e..b50e228a264 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-03-12  Loren Rittle  <ljrittle@acm.org>
+
+	reported by Peter Schmid <schmid@snake.iap.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
+	* testsuite/thread/pthread4.cc: Lower nominal iteration counter.
+
 2002-03-12  Benjamin Kosnik  <bkoz@redhat.com>
             Per Liboriussen  <liborius@stofanet.dk>
 	
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/thread/pthread4.cc b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/thread/pthread4.cc
index f8cd29d3f0b..2595e0bd595 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/thread/pthread4.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/thread/pthread4.cc
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static unsigned max_size = 10;
 #if defined(__CYGWIN__)
 static int iters = 10000;
 #else
-static int iters = 1000000;
+static int iters = 300000;
 #endif
 
 void*