diff --git a/tests/dragonfly/acl_family_test.py b/tests/dragonfly/acl_family_test.py
index f9d4b3003a0e..393174fbe333 100644
--- a/tests/dragonfly/acl_family_test.py
+++ b/tests/dragonfly/acl_family_test.py
@@ -190,12 +190,18 @@ async def test_acl_cat_commands_multi_exec_squash(df_factory):
     res = await admin_client.execute_command("ACL SETUSER kk -@string")
     assert res == "OK"
 
+    # We need to sleep because within dragonfly, we first reply to the client with
+    # "OK" and then we stream the update to proactor threads. The reason for this,
+    # are some connections might need to be evicted, so we first need to reply before
+    # we actually do that. Between those steps, there is a small window that the
+    # EXEC below might succeed.
+    await asyncio.sleep(1)
+
     res = await client.execute_command("EXEC")
     # TODO(we need to fix this, basiscally SQUASHED/MULTI transaction commands
     # return multiple errors for each command failed. Since the nature of the error
     # is the same, that a rule has changed we should squash those error messages into
     # one.
-    logging.debug(f"Result is: {res}")
     assert res[0].args[0] == "kk ACL rules changed between the MULTI and EXEC", res
 
     await admin_client.aclose()