diff --git a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestSearchWithThreads.java b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestSearchWithThreads.java
index 74027eff543..0ff446dabb9 100644
--- a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestSearchWithThreads.java
+++ b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/TestSearchWithThreads.java
@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.RandomIndexWriter;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase.UseNoMemoryExpensiveCodec;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.LuceneTestCase;
 
+@UseNoMemoryExpensiveCodec
 public class TestSearchWithThreads extends LuceneTestCase {
   
   final int NUM_DOCS = atLeast(10000);