diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index a0bcf71e38..47968d336c 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -559,6 +559,9 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9450. HADOOP_USER_CLASSPATH_FIRST is not honored; CLASSPATH
     is PREpended instead of APpended. (Chris Nauroth and harsh via harsh)
 
+    HADOOP-9503. Remove sleep between IPC client connect timeouts.
+    (Varun Sharma via szetszwo)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-9150. Avoid unnecessary DNS resolution attempts for logical URIs
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java
index 986b1a2c15..b6ffda8221 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/Client.java
@@ -706,12 +706,6 @@ public class Client {
       if (curRetries >= maxRetries) {
         throw ioe;
       }
-
-      // otherwise back off and retry
-      try {
-        Thread.sleep(1000);
-      } catch (InterruptedException ignored) {}
-      
       LOG.info("Retrying connect to server: " + server + ". Already tried "
           + curRetries + " time(s); maxRetries=" + maxRetries);
     }