diff --git a/cmake/generic.cmake b/cmake/generic.cmake
index 8842e8e21c6df224bb6341a4f7f526e3d61e92e1..26538c78b172bdf8efa9f7c08e80593de25f676c 100644
--- a/cmake/generic.cmake
+++ b/cmake/generic.cmake
@@ -384,8 +384,8 @@ function(cc_test_run TARGET_NAME)
     set_property(TEST ${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTY ENVIRONMENT FLAGS_cpu_deterministic=true)
     set_property(TEST ${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTY ENVIRONMENT FLAGS_init_allocated_mem=true)
     set_property(TEST ${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTY ENVIRONMENT FLAGS_cudnn_deterministic=true)
-    # No unit test should exceed 10 minutes.
-    set_tests_properties(${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 600)
+    # No unit test should exceed 2 minutes.
+    set_tests_properties(${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 120)
   endif()
 endfunction()
 
@@ -743,8 +743,8 @@ function(py_test TARGET_NAME)
                WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
     endif()
 
-    # No unit test should exceed 10 minutes.
-    set_tests_properties(${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 600)
+    # No unit test should exceed 2 minutes.
+    set_tests_properties(${TARGET_NAME} PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 120)
   endif()
 endfunction()
 
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/contrib/slim/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/python/paddle/fluid/contrib/slim/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index df7e585d45f445067b3a700951418c06c9062ae7..207a251adb72f94b1b50b435952aaaf63dff9f8f 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/contrib/slim/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/contrib/slim/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -263,6 +263,13 @@ list(REMOVE_ITEM TEST_OPS
 #TODO(wanghaoshuang): Fix this unitest failed on GCC8.
 LIST(REMOVE_ITEM TEST_OPS test_auto_pruning)
 LIST(REMOVE_ITEM TEST_OPS test_filter_pruning)
+
 foreach(src ${TEST_OPS})
     py_test(${src} SRCS ${src}.py)
 endforeach()
+
+# setting timeout value for old unittests
+if(NOT WIN32)
+	set_tests_properties(test_post_training_quantization_mobilenetv1 PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 200)
+	set_tests_properties(test_post_training_quantization_resnet50 PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 200)
+endif()
diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/CMakeLists.txt b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
index e7b395e2915a71031a1da8f789e3b0e6e5e3b94b..10adb63c9cb1a4395d4df3f90b36c86da4a1e318 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -326,6 +326,8 @@ list(REMOVE_ITEM TEST_OPS test_conv3d_transpose_op)
 # disable this unittest temporarily
 list(REMOVE_ITEM TEST_OPS test_imperative_data_loader_exception)
 list(REMOVE_ITEM TEST_OPS test_sampling_id_op)
+
+
 if (APPLE OR WIN32)
   list(REMOVE_ITEM TEST_OPS test_dataset)
   list(REMOVE_ITEM TEST_OPS test_dataset_dataloader)
@@ -567,3 +569,11 @@ if(NOT WIN32 AND NOT APPLE)
     set_tests_properties(test_multiprocess_dataloader_iterable_dataset_static PROPERTIES LABELS "RUN_TYPE=EXCLUSIVE")
     set_tests_properties(test_multiprocess_dataloader_iterable_dataset_dynamic PROPERTIES LABELS "RUN_TYPE=EXCLUSIVE")
 endif()
+
+# setting timeout value for old unittests
+# set_tests_properties(test_dist_fleet_sparse_embedding_ctr PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 200)
+set_tests_properties(test_fused_elemwise_activation_op PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 150)
+set_tests_properties(test_gru_op PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 200)
+set_tests_properties(test_layer_norm_op PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 150)
+set_tests_properties(test_pool3d_op PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 150)
+set_tests_properties(test_regularizer PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 150)