---
title: "suspicious-sleep"
description: "Detect suspiciously small bare time.Sleep literals."
image: "https://strider.gempir.com/og.png"
---

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# suspicious-sleep

**Default severity:** `warning`

Reports bare integer literals from 1 through 120 because `time.Sleep` treats
them as nanoseconds.

## Bad

```go
time.Sleep(5)
```

## Good

```go
time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
```

Source: https://strider.gempir.com/analyzers/suspicious-sleep/index.mdx