diff --git a/smoketest/scripts/cli/base_accel_ppp_test.py b/smoketest/scripts/cli/base_accel_ppp_test.py
index c6f6cb8045..750702e98d 100644
--- a/smoketest/scripts/cli/base_accel_ppp_test.py
+++ b/smoketest/scripts/cli/base_accel_ppp_test.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 import re
 
+from time import sleep
 from base_vyostest_shim import VyOSUnitTestSHIM
 from configparser import ConfigParser
 
@@ -641,6 +642,11 @@ def test_accel_log_level(self):
             for log_level in range(0, 5):
                 self.set(['log', 'level', str(log_level)])
                 self.cli_commit()
+
+                # Systemd comes with a default of 5 restarts in 10 seconds policy,
+                # this limit can be hit by this reastart sequence, slow down a bit
+                sleep(5)
+
                 # Validate configuration values
                 conf = ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True)
                 conf.read(self._config_file)