diff --git a/typed-racket-test/info.rkt b/typed-racket-test/info.rkt
index a1955c0d..20a9acf5 100644
--- a/typed-racket-test/info.rkt
+++ b/typed-racket-test/info.rkt
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
 (define test-timeouts
   '(("optimizer/run.rkt" 1200)
     ("run.rkt" 1800)
-    ("tr-random-testing.rkt" 300)
     ("with-tr-contracts.rkt" 1500)))
 
 
diff --git a/typed-racket-test/tr-random-testing.rkt b/typed-racket-test/tr-random-testing.rkt
index 013d8a41..29746d0a 100644
--- a/typed-racket-test/tr-random-testing.rkt
+++ b/typed-racket-test/tr-random-testing.rkt
@@ -236,19 +236,22 @@
 (printf "seed: ~s~n" seed)
 (flush-output) ; DrDr doesn't print the above if the testing segfaults.
 
-(call-with-limits
- #f max-mem
- (lambda ()
-   ;; start with 1000 small, deterministic test cases, to catch regressions
-   (redex-check tr-arith E #:in-order (check-all-reals (term E))
-                #:attempts 1000
-                #:prepare exp->real-exp
-                #:keep-going? #t)
-   ;; then switch to purely random to get different ones every run
-   (redex-check tr-arith E #:ad-hoc (check-all-reals (term E))
-                #:attempts n-attempts
-                #:prepare exp->real-exp
-                #:keep-going? #t)))
+;; because some of the generated expressions comute gigantic bignums, running
+;; out of resources is expected, so just ignore that case
+(with-handlers ([exn:fail:resource? values])
+  (call-with-limits
+   300 max-mem
+   (lambda ()
+     ;; start with 1000 small, deterministic test cases, to catch regressions
+     (redex-check tr-arith E #:in-order (check-all-reals (term E))
+                  #:attempts 1000
+                  #:prepare exp->real-exp
+                  #:keep-going? #t)
+     ;; then switch to purely random to get different ones every run
+     (redex-check tr-arith E #:ad-hoc (check-all-reals (term E))
+                  #:attempts n-attempts
+                  #:prepare exp->real-exp
+                  #:keep-going? #t))))
 
 (printf "bad tests (usually typechecking failed): ~v~n" num-exceptions)