diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index cb76c8cf652..d754ad460d8 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -498,6 +498,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6591. while loop is executed tens of thousands of times in Hedged Read
     (Liang Xie via cnauroth)
 
+    HDFS-6604. The short-circuit cache doesn't correctly time out replicas that
+    haven't been used in a while (cmccabe)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-2006 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
 
     HDFS-6299. Protobuf for XAttr and client-side implementation. (Yi Liu via umamahesh)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/shortcircuit/ShortCircuitCache.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/shortcircuit/ShortCircuitCache.java
index 7df340ac2a6..a4b852f32e4 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/shortcircuit/ShortCircuitCache.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/shortcircuit/ShortCircuitCache.java
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ public class ShortCircuitCache implements Closeable {
         Long evictionTimeNs = Long.valueOf(0);
         while (true) {
           Entry<Long, ShortCircuitReplica> entry = 
-              evictableMmapped.ceilingEntry(evictionTimeNs);
+              evictable.ceilingEntry(evictionTimeNs);
           if (entry == null) break;
           evictionTimeNs = entry.getKey();
           long evictionTimeMs = 
@@ -384,10 +384,6 @@ public class ShortCircuitCache implements Closeable {
     this.shmManager = shmManager;
   }
 
-  public long getMmapRetryTimeoutMs() {
-    return mmapRetryTimeoutMs;
-  }
-
   public long getStaleThresholdMs() {
     return staleThresholdMs;
   }
@@ -847,7 +843,7 @@ public class ShortCircuitCache implements Closeable {
         } else if (replica.mmapData instanceof Long) {
           long lastAttemptTimeMs = (Long)replica.mmapData;
           long delta = Time.monotonicNow() - lastAttemptTimeMs;
-          if (delta < staleThresholdMs) {
+          if (delta < mmapRetryTimeoutMs) {
             if (LOG.isTraceEnabled()) {
               LOG.trace(this + ": can't create client mmap for " +
                   replica + " because we failed to " +
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/shortcircuit/TestShortCircuitCache.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/shortcircuit/TestShortCircuitCache.java
index d62b3eb3201..a2d2bf830f3 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/shortcircuit/TestShortCircuitCache.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/shortcircuit/TestShortCircuitCache.java
@@ -197,11 +197,12 @@ public class TestShortCircuitCache {
   @Test(timeout=60000)
   public void testExpiry() throws Exception {
     final ShortCircuitCache cache =
-        new ShortCircuitCache(2, 1, 1, 10000000, 1, 10000, 0);
+        new ShortCircuitCache(2, 1, 1, 10000000, 1, 10000000, 0);
     final TestFileDescriptorPair pair = new TestFileDescriptorPair();
     ShortCircuitReplicaInfo replicaInfo1 =
       cache.fetchOrCreate(
-        new ExtendedBlockId(123, "test_bp1"), new SimpleReplicaCreator(123, cache, pair));
+        new ExtendedBlockId(123, "test_bp1"),
+          new SimpleReplicaCreator(123, cache, pair));
     Preconditions.checkNotNull(replicaInfo1.getReplica());
     Preconditions.checkState(replicaInfo1.getInvalidTokenException() == null);
     pair.compareWith(replicaInfo1.getReplica().getDataStream(),