longer timeout

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/jstests/noPassthrough/libs/backup_restore.js b/jstests/noPassthrough/libs/backup_restore.js
index 1b5100f7e57..33308950e1e 100644
--- a/jstests/noPassthrough/libs/backup_restore.js
+++ b/jstests/noPassthrough/libs/backup_restore.js
@@ -175,11 +175,15 @@ var BackupRestoreTest = function(options) {
             },
             oplogSize: 1024
         });
+
+        // Avoid stepdowns due to heavy workloads on slow machines.
+        var config = rst.getReplSetConfig();
+        config.settings = {electionTimeoutMillis: 60000};
         var nodes = rst.startSet();
+        rst.initiate(config);
 
         // Initialize replica set using default timeout. This should give us sufficient time to
         // allocate 1GB oplogs on slow test hosts.
-        rst.initiate();
         rst.awaitNodesAgreeOnPrimary();
         var primary = rst.getPrimary();
         var secondary = rst.getSecondary();