diff --git a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/util/LuceneTestCase.java b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/util/LuceneTestCase.java
index ea2751406ee..80d99537fe4 100644
--- a/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/util/LuceneTestCase.java
+++ b/lucene/src/test/org/apache/lucene/util/LuceneTestCase.java
@@ -390,6 +390,16 @@ public abstract class LuceneTestCase extends Assert {
     if (testsFailed) {
       System.err.println("NOTE: all tests run in this JVM:");
       System.err.println(Arrays.toString(testClassesRun.toArray()));
+      System.err.println("NOTE: " + System.getProperty("os.name") + " " 
+          + System.getProperty("os.version") + " " 
+          + System.getProperty("os.arch") + "/"
+          + System.getProperty("java.vendor") + " "
+          + System.getProperty("java.version") + " "
+          + (Constants.JRE_IS_64BIT ? "(64-bit)" : "(32-bit)") + "/"
+          + "cpus=" + Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() + ","
+          + "threads=" + Thread.activeCount() + ","
+          + "free=" + Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory() + ","
+          + "total=" + Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory());
     }
   }
 
@@ -1014,16 +1024,6 @@ public abstract class LuceneTestCase extends Assert {
     System.err.println("NOTE: reproduce with: ant test -Dtestcase=" + getClass().getSimpleName() 
         + " -Dtestmethod=" + getName() + " -Dtests.seed=" + new TwoLongs(staticSeed, seed)
         + reproduceWithExtraParams());
-    System.err.println("NOTE: " + System.getProperty("os.name") + " " 
-        + System.getProperty("os.version") + " " 
-        + System.getProperty("os.arch") + "/"
-        + System.getProperty("java.vendor") + " "
-        + System.getProperty("java.version") + " "
-        + (Constants.JRE_IS_64BIT ? "(64-bit)" : "(32-bit)") + "/"
-        + "cpus=" + Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() + ","
-        + "threads=" + Thread.activeCount() + ","
-        + "free=" + Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory() + ","
-        + "total=" + Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory());
   }
   
   // extra params that were overridden needed to reproduce the command