diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
index 2f37da5..9e4360b 100644
--- a/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/__init__.py
@@ -349,11 +349,15 @@ class Modeltests(SimplePagureTest):
         self.worker.poll()
         if self.worker.returncode is not None:
             raise Exception('Worker failed to start')
-        wait_start = time.time()
-        while not pagure.lib.tasks.conn.control.ping(timeout=0.1):
-            time.sleep(0.1)
-            if time.time() - wait_start > 5:
-                raise Exception('Worker failed to initialize in 5 seconds')
+        time.sleep(2)
+        # The below code seems to be leaking redis connection until
+        # Python starts raising OSError with too many open files
+        # This is probably related to https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/4465
+        # wait_start = time.time()
+        # while not pagure.lib.tasks.conn.control.ping(timeout=0.1):
+        #     time.sleep(0.1)
+        #     if time.time() - wait_start > 5:
+        #         raise Exception('Worker failed to initialize in 5 seconds')
 
         self.app.get = create_maybe_waiter(self.app.get, self.app.get)
         self.app.post = create_maybe_waiter(self.app.post, self.app.get)