diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 214b6e33ff9..8b0b183bb58 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-7066: autoAddReplicas feature has bug when selecting replacement nodes. (Mark Miller)
 
+* SOLR-7370: FSHDFSUtils#recoverFileLease tries to recover the lease every one second after 
+  the first four second wait. (Mark Miller)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/util/FSHDFSUtils.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/util/FSHDFSUtils.java
index b21af298f23..206ce8216a7 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/util/FSHDFSUtils.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/util/FSHDFSUtils.java
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ public class FSHDFSUtils {
     // This should be set to how long it'll take for us to timeout against primary datanode if it
     // is dead.  We set it to 61 seconds, 1 second than the default READ_TIMEOUT in HDFS, the
     // default value for DFS_CLIENT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT_KEY.
-    long subsequentPause = conf.getInt("solr.hdfs.lease.recovery.dfs.timeout", 61 * 1000);
+    long subsequentPause = TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.convert(conf.getInt("solr.hdfs.lease.recovery.dfs.timeout", 61 * 1000), TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
     
     Method isFileClosedMeth = null;
     // whether we need to look for isFileClosed method