diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/TestLogRolling.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/TestLogRolling.java
index b88d5ce9b45..fee1e3acad6 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/TestLogRolling.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/TestLogRolling.java
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ public class TestLogRolling  {
     // force a log roll to read back and verify previously written logs
     log.rollWriter(true);
     assertTrue("preLogRolledCalled has size of " + preLogRolledCalled.size(),
-        preLogRolledCalled.size() == 4);
+        preLogRolledCalled.size() == 3);
 
     // read back the data written
     Set<String> loggedRows = new HashSet<String>();