diff --git a/react-packager/src/JSTransformer/index.js b/react-packager/src/JSTransformer/index.js
index 89f31162..1bb845d7 100644
--- a/react-packager/src/JSTransformer/index.js
+++ b/react-packager/src/JSTransformer/index.js
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ const readFile = Promise.denodeify(fs.readFile);
 const MAX_CALLS_PER_WORKER = 600;
 
 // Worker will timeout if one of the callers timeout.
-const DEFAULT_MAX_CALL_TIME = 120000;
+const DEFAULT_MAX_CALL_TIME = 300000;
 
 // How may times can we tolerate failures from the worker.
-const MAX_RETRIES = 3;
+const MAX_RETRIES = 2;
 
 const validateOpts = declareOpts({
   projectRoots: {