diff --git a/test/heapsampling.go b/test/heapsampling.go
index d5ffc7f202..7461a76145 100644
--- a/test/heapsampling.go
+++ b/test/heapsampling.go
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ var a64k *[64 * 1024]byte
 // vary for run to run. This test only checks that the resulting
 // values appear reasonable.
 func main() {
+	return // TODO: fix this flaky test; golang.org/issue/13098
+
 	const countInterleaved = 10000
 	allocInterleaved(countInterleaved)
 	checkAllocations(getMemProfileRecords(), "main.allocInterleaved", countInterleaved, []int64{256 * 1024, 1024, 256 * 1024, 512, 256 * 1024, 256})