diff --git a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_subprocess.py
index 4c0140d80ba7f6..f71ad72f999ee9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_asyncio/test_subprocess.py
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ def test_kill(self):
 
     def test_kill_issue43884(self):
         if sys.platform == 'win32':
-            blocking_shell_command = f'{sys.executable} -c "import time; time.sleep(100000000)"'
+            blocking_shell_command = f'{sys.executable} -c "import time; time.sleep(2)"'
         else:
             blocking_shell_command = 'sleep 1; sleep 1'
         creationflags = 0