diff --git a/src/test/regress/input/sreh.source b/src/test/regress/input/sreh.source
index afd2c36c7912f51c3d7b1274b9ec153b7f5986df..2c6ea05222d6a6f5f824ae7887ff5ffea1995515 100755
--- a/src/test/regress/input/sreh.source
+++ b/src/test/regress/input/sreh.source
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ DROP TABLE sreh_constr;
 -- ###########################################################
 
 CREATE EXTERNAL WEB TABLE gpfdist_sreh_start (x text)
-execute E'((@bindir@/gpfdist -p 8080 -d @abs_srcdir@/data  </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &); sleep 1; echo "starting...") '
+execute E'((@bindir@/gpfdist -p 8080 -d @abs_srcdir@/data  </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &); sleep 3; echo "starting...") '
 on SEGMENT 0
 FORMAT 'text' (delimiter '|');
 
diff --git a/src/test/regress/output/sreh.source b/src/test/regress/output/sreh.source
index 22c7058bd1860980f704e0eb61eda0d3ebc11dd0..8ed8d6c936f7c086fdc00faeea3f2fca480f3c90 100755
--- a/src/test/regress/output/sreh.source
+++ b/src/test/regress/output/sreh.source
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ DROP TABLE sreh_constr;
 -- External Tables 
 -- ###########################################################
 CREATE EXTERNAL WEB TABLE gpfdist_sreh_start (x text)
-execute E'((@bindir@/gpfdist -p 8080 -d @abs_srcdir@/data  </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &); sleep 1; echo "starting...") '
+execute E'((@bindir@/gpfdist -p 8080 -d @abs_srcdir@/data  </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &); sleep 3; echo "starting...") '
 on SEGMENT 0
 FORMAT 'text' (delimiter '|');
 CREATE EXTERNAL WEB TABLE gpfdist_sreh_stop (x text)