diff --git a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/feature/Word2VecSuite.scala b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/feature/Word2VecSuite.scala
index 6d699440f2f2e06c595160b7382e723c6e3ae7c6..c9fb9768c1b4594487ba0a76c5d4f40d5c50cdf5 100644
--- a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/feature/Word2VecSuite.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/feature/Word2VecSuite.scala
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ class Word2VecSuite extends SparkFunSuite with MLlibTestSparkContext {
 
   }
 
-  test("big model load / save") {
+  ignore("big model load / save") {
     // create a model bigger than 32MB since 9000 * 1000 * 4 > 2^25
     val word2VecMap = Map((0 to 9000).map(i => s"$i" -> Array.fill(1000)(0.1f)): _*)
     val model = new Word2VecModel(word2VecMap)