diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index ba7c3e6cf9d..acedd57d144 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-1784. TestContainerAllocation assumes CapacityScheduler.
     (Robert Kanter via kasha)
 
+    YARN-1907. TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter#testRMWritingMassiveHistory 
+    intermittently fails. (Mit Desai via kihwal)
+
 Release 2.4.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/ahs/TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/ahs/TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter.java
index d8f2a3795e5..91a1a658eb7 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/ahs/TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/ahs/TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter.java
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ public class TestRMApplicationHistoryWriter {
     int cleanedSize = cleaned.size();
     waitCount = 0;
     while (cleanedSize < allocatedSize && waitCount++ < 200) {
-      Thread.sleep(100);
+      Thread.sleep(300);
       resp = nm.nodeHeartbeat(true);
       cleaned = resp.getContainersToCleanup();
       cleanedSize += cleaned.size();