diff --git a/ProjectPlugins/GethPlugin/GethContainerInfoExtractor.cs b/ProjectPlugins/GethPlugin/GethContainerInfoExtractor.cs
index 4fc76763..f16b7b79 100644
--- a/ProjectPlugins/GethPlugin/GethContainerInfoExtractor.cs
+++ b/ProjectPlugins/GethPlugin/GethContainerInfoExtractor.cs
@@ -60,7 +60,16 @@ namespace GethPlugin
 
         private static string Retry(Func<string> fetch)
         {
-            return Time.Retry(fetch, nameof(GethContainerInfoExtractor));
+            // This class is the first moment where we interact with our new geth container.
+            // K8s might be moving pods and/or setting up new VMs.
+            // So we apply a generous retry timeout.
+            var retry = new Retry(nameof(GethContainerInfoExtractor),
+                maxTimeout: TimeSpan.FromMinutes(15.0),
+                sleepAfterFail: TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20.0),
+                onFail: f => { },
+                failFast: false);
+
+            return retry.Run(fetch);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/DataTests/DataExpiryTest.cs b/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/DataTests/DataExpiryTest.cs
index 03d18e34..a4e3500d 100644
--- a/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/DataTests/DataExpiryTest.cs
+++ b/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/DataTests/DataExpiryTest.cs
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ namespace CodexReleaseTests.DataTests
         [Test]
         public void DeletesExpiredData()
         {
-            var fileSize = 100.MB();
+            var fileSize = 3.MB();
             var node = StartCodex(s => WithFastBlockExpiry(s));
 
             var startSpace = node.Space();
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ namespace CodexReleaseTests.DataTests
         [Test]
         public void DeletesExpiredDataUsedByStorageRequests()
         {
-            var fileSize = 100.MB();
+            var fileSize = 3.MB();
 
             var bootstrapNode = StartCodex();
             var geth = StartGethNode(s => s.IsMiner());
diff --git a/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/Parallelism.cs b/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/Parallelism.cs
index 2666122c..44731c5e 100644
--- a/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/Parallelism.cs
+++ b/Tests/CodexReleaseTests/Parallelism.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 using NUnit.Framework;
 
-[assembly: LevelOfParallelism(3)]
+[assembly: LevelOfParallelism(2)]
 namespace CodexReleaseTests
 {
 }