diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index fa11642977d..3f67fa6c751 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-1785 TableInputFormat.TableRecordReader.next has a bug
                 (Ning Li via Stack)
     HADOOP-1800 output should default utf8 encoding
+    HADOOP-1814	TestCleanRegionServerExit fails too often on Hudson
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
     HADOOP-1737 Make HColumnDescriptor data publically members settable
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/TestCleanRegionServerExit.java b/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/TestCleanRegionServerExit.java
index 94812ffa85a..21cc10506d9 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/TestCleanRegionServerExit.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/TestCleanRegionServerExit.java
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public class TestCleanRegionServerExit extends HBaseClusterTestCase {
     super(2);
     conf.setInt("ipc.client.timeout", 5000);            // reduce ipc client timeout
     conf.setInt("ipc.client.connect.max.retries", 5);   // and number of retries
-    conf.setInt("hbase.client.retries.number", 3);      // reduce HBase retries
+    conf.setInt("hbase.client.retries.number", 5);      // reduce HBase retries
     Logger.getRootLogger().setLevel(Level.WARN);
     Logger.getLogger(this.getClass().getPackage().getName()).setLevel(Level.DEBUG);
   }