diff --git a/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/removal/removal_cancel.ksh b/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/removal/removal_cancel.ksh
index e7fa6abb8b..afb318ef21 100755
--- a/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/removal/removal_cancel.ksh
+++ b/tests/zfs-tests/tests/functional/removal/removal_cancel.ksh
@@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ log_must default_setup_noexit "$REMOVEDISK"
 
 #
 # Create a file of size 1GB and then do some random writes.
-# Since randwritecomp does 8K writes we do 12500 writes
-# which means we write ~100MB to the vdev.
+# Since randwritecomp does 8K writes we do 25000 writes
+# which means we write ~200MB to the vdev.
 #
 log_must mkfile -n 1g $SAMPLEFILE
-log_must randwritecomp $SAMPLEFILE 12500
+log_must randwritecomp $SAMPLEFILE 25000
 
 #
 # Add second device where all the data will be evacuated.