diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 0db240494..ceffe18f6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ env:
   global:
    - CCACHE_TEMPDIR=/tmp/.ccache-temp
    - CCACHE_COMPRESS=1
-   - CASHER_TIME_OUT=1000
+   - CASHER_TIME_OUT=599 # one second less than 10m to avoid 10m timeout error: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/issues/2742
    - JOBS=4
 
 matrix: