From fa793ee2851ced848d4e7a2e9bd5372525524692 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Sully <john@csquare.ca>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2021 16:02:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] We cannot create time events on threads that don't have an
 event loop

Former-commit-id: 4c88a4ee0e86f6e1c9b18733e48ce50751d01e45
---
 src/evict.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/evict.cpp b/src/evict.cpp
index d336bc8b8..012a6afc3 100644
--- a/src/evict.cpp
+++ b/src/evict.cpp
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ int performEvictions(bool fPreSnapshot) {
                  * memory, don't want to spend too much time here.  */
                 if (elapsedUs(evictionTimer) > eviction_time_limit_us) {
                     // We still need to free memory - start eviction timer proc
-                    if (!isEvictionProcRunning) {
+                    if (!isEvictionProcRunning && serverTL->el != nullptr) {
                         isEvictionProcRunning = 1;
                         aeCreateTimeEvent(serverTL->el, 0,
                                 evictionTimeProc, NULL, NULL);