diff --git a/salt/netapi/rest_cherrypy/app.py b/salt/netapi/rest_cherrypy/app.py
index f8c2b58a70..c78d20da26 100644
--- a/salt/netapi/rest_cherrypy/app.py
+++ b/salt/netapi/rest_cherrypy/app.py
@@ -566,7 +566,6 @@ import json
 import os
 import signal
 import tarfile
-import time
 from multiprocessing import Process, Pipe
 
 # Import third-party libs
@@ -2427,7 +2426,6 @@ class WebsocketEndpoint(object):
                         logger.error(
                                 "Error: Salt event has non UTF-8 data:\n{0}"
                                 .format(data))
-                time.sleep(0.1)
 
         parent_pipe, child_pipe = Pipe()
         handler.pipe = parent_pipe