diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/TestJMXGet.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/TestJMXGet.java
index a9e41ec177..f83e7d007f 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/TestJMXGet.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/TestJMXGet.java
@@ -111,9 +111,6 @@ public void testNameNode() throws Exception {
         jmx.getValue("NumLiveDataNodes")));
     assertGauge("CorruptBlocks", Long.parseLong(jmx.getValue("CorruptBlocks")),
                 getMetrics("FSNamesystem"));
-    DFSTestUtil.waitForMetric(jmx, "NumOpenConnections", numDatanodes);
-    assertEquals(numDatanodes, Integer.parseInt(
-        jmx.getValue("NumOpenConnections")));
 
     cluster.shutdown();
     MBeanServerConnection mbsc = ManagementFactory.getPlatformMBeanServer();