diff --git a/InnerDetector/InDetEventCnv/SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/CMakeLists.txt b/InnerDetector/InDetEventCnv/SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/CMakeLists.txt
index 6aeecdbedf1bc79ecd64b6598e5b225c40244108..8d41a87a08f699ac0218e48059055d8e19f7f1b8 100644
--- a/InnerDetector/InDetEventCnv/SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/InnerDetector/InDetEventCnv/SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ atlas_add_component( SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv
 
 # Run tests:
 atlas_add_test( TestSCTDecode
-                SCRIPT athena.py --threads=5 SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/testSCTDecode.py
+                SCRIPT athena.py --threads=3 SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/testSCTDecode.py
                 PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 600
-                ENVIRONMENT THREADS=5 )
+                ENVIRONMENT THREADS=3 )
 atlas_add_test( TestSCTEncodeSerial
                 SCRIPT athena.py SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/testSCTEncode.py
                 PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 300 )
diff --git a/InnerDetector/InDetEventCnv/SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/share/testSCTDecode.py b/InnerDetector/InDetEventCnv/SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/share/testSCTDecode.py
index 669b8674ceefd4854070b7353bebd008eac2db19..8f033c9eb7335f3c63fa6ac555db78c66ad543dc 100644
--- a/InnerDetector/InDetEventCnv/SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/share/testSCTDecode.py
+++ b/InnerDetector/InDetEventCnv/SCT_RawDataByteStreamCnv/share/testSCTDecode.py
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ if doPrint:
     print topSequence
 
 # Set the number of events to be processed
-theApp.EvtMax = 10
+theApp.EvtMax = 6
 
 #--------------------------------------------------------------
 # Set output lvl (VERBOSE, DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, FATAL)