diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionServer.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionServer.java
index 202d4c2971b..01d41954151 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionServer.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegionServer.java
@@ -1737,11 +1737,16 @@ public class HRegionServer extends HasThread implements
 
   static class PeriodicMemStoreFlusher extends ScheduledChore {
     final HRegionServer server;
-    final static int RANGE_OF_DELAY = 5 * 60 * 1000; // 5 min in milliseconds
+    final static int RANGE_OF_DELAY = 5 * 60; // 5 min in seconds
     final static int MIN_DELAY_TIME = 0; // millisec
+
+    final int rangeOfDelay;
     public PeriodicMemStoreFlusher(int cacheFlushInterval, final HRegionServer server) {
       super("MemstoreFlusherChore", server, cacheFlushInterval);
       this.server = server;
+
+      this.rangeOfDelay = this.server.conf.getInt("hbase.regionserver.periodicmemstoreflusher.rangeofdelayseconds",
+              RANGE_OF_DELAY)*1000;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -1752,7 +1757,7 @@ public class HRegionServer extends HasThread implements
         if (r.shouldFlush(whyFlush)) {
           FlushRequester requester = server.getFlushRequester();
           if (requester != null) {
-            long randomDelay = (long) RandomUtils.nextInt(0, RANGE_OF_DELAY) + MIN_DELAY_TIME;
+            long randomDelay = (long) RandomUtils.nextInt(0, rangeOfDelay) + MIN_DELAY_TIME;
             //Throttle the flushes by putting a delay. If we don't throttle, and there
             //is a balanced write-load on the regions in a table, we might end up
             //overwhelming the filesystem with too many flushes at once.
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestRegionServerMetrics.java b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestRegionServerMetrics.java
index fab6512602d..b77adecc198 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestRegionServerMetrics.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/TestRegionServerMetrics.java
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ public class TestRegionServerMetrics {
     // testMobMetrics creates few hfiles and manages compaction manually.
     conf.setInt("hbase.hstore.compactionThreshold", 100);
     conf.setInt("hbase.hstore.compaction.max", 100);
+    conf.setInt("hbase.regionserver.periodicmemstoreflusher.rangeofdelayseconds", 4*60);
     conf.setInt(HConstants.REGIONSERVER_INFO_PORT, -1);
 
     TEST_UTIL.startMiniCluster(1, 1);