diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestIPC.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestIPC.java
index 6fb3511b7f..4198e4040b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestIPC.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestIPC.java
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ public class TestIPC {
       }
       // wait until reader put a call to callQueue, to make sure all readers
       // are blocking on the queue after initialClients threads are started.
-      verify(spy, timeout(100).times(i + 1)).put(Mockito.<Call>anyObject());
+      verify(spy, timeout(5000).times(i + 1)).put(Mockito.<Call>anyObject());
     }
 
     try {