diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 4010d1015f8..ace1e1c97cc 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1779,6 +1779,9 @@ Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-9406. FSImage may get corrupted after deleting snapshot.
     (Contributed by Jing Zhao, Stanislav Antic, Vinayakumar B, Yongjun Zhang)
 
+    HDFS-9740. Use a reasonable limit in DFSTestUtil.waitForMetric()
+    (Chang Li via vinayakumarb)
+
 Release 2.7.2 - 2016-01-25
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSTestUtil.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSTestUtil.java
index 50c6d058b15..91641f3f000 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSTestUtil.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSTestUtil.java
@@ -1888,7 +1888,7 @@ public class DFSTestUtil {
           throw new UnhandledException("Test failed due to unexpected exception", e);
         }
       }
-    }, 1000, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
+    }, 1000, 60000);
   }
 
   public static StorageReceivedDeletedBlocks[] makeReportForReceivedBlock(