diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/TestRollingRestart.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/TestRollingRestart.java
index 9a2dad6e79e..580744317fd 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/TestRollingRestart.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/TestRollingRestart.java
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 public class TestRollingRestart {
   private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(TestRollingRestart.class);
 
-  @Test
+  @Test (timeout=300000)
   public void testBasicRollingRestart() throws Exception {
 
     // Start a cluster with 2 masters and 4 regionservers