diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 343684cd39..ed5261eefb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Dec  1 06:00:49 2013  Aman Gupta <ruby@tmm1.net>
+
+	* test/ruby/test_gc.rb (test_gc_reason): Force minor GC by consuming
+	  free slots to fix test.
+
 Sat Nov 30 21:22:11 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* dir.c (dir_initialize): check unknown keywords.  [ruby-dev:47152]
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_gc.rb b/test/ruby/test_gc.rb
index 2668582ed8..034a330c85 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_gc.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_gc.rb
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ class TestGc < Test::Unit::TestCase
   end
 
   def test_gc_reason
-    100_000.times{ "a" + "b" }
+    GC.start
+    GC.stat[:heap_free_slot].times{ "a" + "b" }
     assert_equal({:gc_by => :newobj},
       GC::Profiler.decode_flags(GC.stat[:last_collection_flags]))
   end