diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 5fc3789a510..5f44cb9359f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-2122  [stargate] Initializing scanner column families doesn't work
                (Greg Lu via Andrew Purtell)
    HBASE-2124  Useless exception in HMaster on startup
+   HBASE-2127  randomWrite mode of PerformanceEvaluation benchmark program
+               writes only to a small range of keys (Kannan Muthukkaruppan
+               via Stack)
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-1760  Cleanup TODOs in HTable
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/PerformanceEvaluation.java b/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/PerformanceEvaluation.java
index 62ff3f9c7ef..a9040150b25 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/PerformanceEvaluation.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/PerformanceEvaluation.java
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ public class PerformanceEvaluation implements HConstants {
           int index = Integer.parseInt(getName());
           try {
             long elapsedTime = pe.runOneClient(cmd, index * perClientRows,
-               perClientRows, perClientRows,
+               perClientRows, R,
                new Status() {
                   public void setStatus(final String msg) throws IOException {
                     LOG.info("client-" + getName() + " " + msg);