diff --git a/test_runner/performance/test_unlogged_build.py b/test_runner/performance/test_unlogged_build.py
index 8eb3e9d423..691af81465 100644
--- a/test_runner/performance/test_unlogged_build.py
+++ b/test_runner/performance/test_unlogged_build.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 # We need to create quite large  index (more than one gigabyte segment) to reproduce write error caused by this race condition
 # (backend completed unlogged build removes local files while backend evicting page tries to write to the file).
 # If index size is smaller than segment size, the problem is avoided by file descriptor cache which prevents file deletion.
+@pytest.mark.timeout(10000)
 def test_unlogged_build(neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuilder):
     n_connections = 4
     shared_buffers = 128