diff --git a/src/ev_sepoll.c b/src/ev_sepoll.c
index c9c5978..a7fb64c 100644
--- a/src/ev_sepoll.c
+++ b/src/ev_sepoll.c
@@ -475,8 +475,10 @@
 	/* we want to detect if an accept() will create new speculative FDs here */
 	fd_created = 0;
 	spec_processed = 0;
+	gettimeofday(&before_poll, NULL);
 	status = epoll_wait(epoll_fd, epoll_events, fd, wait_time);
 	tv_update_date(wait_time, status);
+	measure_idle();
 
 	for (count = 0; count < status; count++) {
 		int e = epoll_events[count].events;