diff --git a/apis/openstack-swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest.java b/apis/openstack-swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest.java
index 815f15ed89..50e3ea9980 100644
--- a/apis/openstack-swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest.java
+++ b/apis/openstack-swift/src/test/java/org/jclouds/openstack/swift/v1/blobstore/RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest.java
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ public class RegionScopedSwiftBlobStoreParallelLiveTest extends BaseBlobStoreInt
       }
    }
 
-   private final class RandomFileWriter implements Runnable {
+   private static final class RandomFileWriter implements Runnable {
       private final RandomAccessFile raf;
       private final long begin;
       private final long end;