diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPCCallBenchmark.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPCCallBenchmark.java
index 6d83d7d368cbd..4d3043de21c87 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPCCallBenchmark.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ipc/TestRPCCallBenchmark.java
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 public class TestRPCCallBenchmark {
 
-  @Test(timeout=20000)
+  @Test(timeout=80000)
   public void testBenchmarkWithProto() throws Exception {
     int rc = ToolRunner.run(new RPCCallBenchmark(),
         new String[] {