diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/hadoop/TestHadoopCommits.java b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/hadoop/TestHadoopCommits.java
index 818b16da24ec..be96b959ead9 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/hadoop/TestHadoopCommits.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/hadoop/TestHadoopCommits.java
@@ -426,8 +426,10 @@ public void testConcurrentFastAppends(@TempDir File dir) throws Exception {
             SCHEMA,
             SPEC,
             ImmutableMap.of(
+                // Use a high retry count so no committer exhausts its retries under the forced
+                // lock-step contention below (matches Test{Jdbc,Hive}TableConcurrency).
                 COMMIT_NUM_RETRIES,
-                String.valueOf(threadsCount),
+                "20",
                 COMMIT_MIN_RETRY_WAIT_MS,
                 "10",
                 COMMIT_MAX_RETRY_WAIT_MS,