diff --git a/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/testing/testserver.go b/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/testing/testserver.go
index 785724e7448..6969cb70662 100644
--- a/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/testing/testserver.go
+++ b/cmd/kube-apiserver/app/testing/testserver.go
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ type TestServerInstanceOptions struct {
 	// Set the BinaryVersion of server effective version.
 	// Default to 1.31
 	BinaryVersion string
+	// Set non-default request timeout in the server.
+	RequestTimeout time.Duration
 }
 
 // TestServer return values supplied by kube-test-ApiServer
@@ -194,6 +196,9 @@ func StartTestServer(t ktesting.TB, instanceOptions *TestServerInstanceOptions,
 	utilruntime.Must(utilversion.DefaultComponentGlobalsRegistry.Register(utilversion.DefaultKubeComponent, effectiveVersion, featureGate))
 
 	s := options.NewServerRunOptions()
+	if instanceOptions.RequestTimeout > 0 {
+		s.GenericServerRunOptions.RequestTimeout = instanceOptions.RequestTimeout
+	}
 
 	for _, f := range s.Flags().FlagSets {
 		fs.AddFlagSet(f)
diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go
index 56f24c4fb00..147b12af202 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go
@@ -94,7 +94,10 @@ func mustSetupCluster(tCtx ktesting.TContext, config *config.KubeSchedulerConfig
 		"--disable-admission-plugins=ServiceAccount,TaintNodesByCondition,Priority",
 		"--runtime-config=" + strings.Join(runtimeConfig, ","),
 	}
-	server, err := apiservertesting.StartTestServer(tCtx, apiservertesting.NewDefaultTestServerOptions(), customFlags, framework.SharedEtcd())
+	serverOpts := apiservertesting.NewDefaultTestServerOptions()
+	// Timeout sufficiently long to handle deleting pods of the largest test cases.
+	serverOpts.RequestTimeout = 10 * time.Minute
+	server, err := apiservertesting.StartTestServer(tCtx, serverOpts, customFlags, framework.SharedEtcd())
 	if err != nil {
 		tCtx.Fatalf("start apiserver: %v", err)
 	}