diff --git a/regress/agent-subprocess.sh b/regress/agent-subprocess.sh
index b32d5d436d11..af4f60d22eef 100644
--- a/regress/agent-subprocess.sh
+++ b/regress/agent-subprocess.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ${SSHAGENT} sh -c "echo \$SSH_AGENT_PID >$OBJ/pidfile; sleep 1"
 pid=`cat $OBJ/pidfile`
 
 # Currently ssh-agent polls every 10s so we need to wait at least that long.
-n=12
+n=62
 while kill -0 $pid >/dev/null 2>&1 && test "$n" -gt "0"; do
 	kill -0 $pid
 	echo $?