diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 4eabce534ed..1c01978f1f6 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -2760,6 +2760,9 @@ 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 d6a7b930a86..dc1853a6b13 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
@@ -2023,6 +2023,6 @@ public class DFSTestUtil {
           throw new UnhandledException("Test failed due to unexpected exception", e);
         }
       }
-    }, 1000, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
+    }, 1000, 60000);
   }
 }