diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/commit/integration/ITestS3ACommitterMRJob.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/commit/integration/ITestS3ACommitterMRJob.java
index e091ee344df51..2e4a4617f9ce2 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/commit/integration/ITestS3ACommitterMRJob.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/commit/integration/ITestS3ACommitterMRJob.java
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ public void test_200_execute() throws Exception {
       Path log4jPath = new Path(log4j.toURI());
       LOG.debug("Using log4j path {}", log4jPath);
       mrJob.addFileToClassPath(log4jPath);
-      String sysprops = String.format("-Xmx128m -Dlog4j.configuration=%s",
+      String sysprops = String.format("-Xmx256m -Dlog4j.configuration=%s",
           log4j);
       jobConf.set(JobConf.MAPRED_MAP_TASK_JAVA_OPTS, sysprops);
       jobConf.set(JobConf.MAPRED_REDUCE_TASK_JAVA_OPTS, sysprops);