diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index b5c8e83f4d..8f72154eb4 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -536,6 +536,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7576. Fix findbugs warnings and javac warnings in hadoop-auth.
     (szetszwo)
 
+    HADOOP-7593. Fix AssertionError in TestHttpServer.testMaxThreads().
+    (Uma Maheswara Rao G via szetszwo)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java
index d5deb7df92..0aaa964313 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer.java
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ public HttpServer(String name, String bindAddress, int port,
 
     int maxThreads = conf.getInt(HTTP_MAX_THREADS, -1);
     // If HTTP_MAX_THREADS is not configured, QueueThreadPool() will use the
-    // default value (currently 254).
+    // default value (currently 250).
     QueuedThreadPool threadPool = maxThreads == -1 ?
         new QueuedThreadPool() : new QueuedThreadPool(maxThreads);
     webServer.setThreadPool(threadPool);
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpServer.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpServer.java
index 50de7fc2cb..38c70b910c 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/TestHttpServer.java
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@
 package org.apache.hadoop.http;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.net.URLConnection;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.Arrays;
@@ -131,7 +129,9 @@ public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
   }
 
   @BeforeClass public static void setup() throws Exception {
-    server = createTestServer();
+    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
+    conf.setInt(HttpServer.HTTP_MAX_THREADS, 10);
+    server = createTestServer(conf);
     server.addServlet("echo", "/echo", EchoServlet.class);
     server.addServlet("echomap", "/echomap", EchoMapServlet.class);
     server.addServlet("htmlcontent", "/htmlcontent", HtmlContentServlet.class);
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ public void run() {
             assertEquals("a:b\nc:d\n",
                          readOutput(new URL(baseUrl, "/echo?a=b&c=d")));
             int serverThreads = server.webServer.getThreadPool().getThreads();
-            assertTrue(serverThreads <= MAX_THREADS);
+            assertTrue("More threads are started than expected, Server Threads count: "
+                    + serverThreads, serverThreads <= MAX_THREADS);
             System.out.println("Number of threads = " + serverThreads +
                 " which is less or equal than the max = " + MAX_THREADS);
           } catch (Exception e) {