diff --git a/Reconstruction/egamma/egammaValidation/share/egamma_art_checker_joboptions.py b/Reconstruction/egamma/egammaValidation/share/egamma_art_checker_joboptions.py
index 1931dc0a7df3849430a2a3cf1019086732e228c9..0acfb43ac0e45463956c3db23173bda413cd041c 100755
--- a/Reconstruction/egamma/egammaValidation/share/egamma_art_checker_joboptions.py
+++ b/Reconstruction/egamma/egammaValidation/share/egamma_art_checker_joboptions.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ job = CfgMgr.AthSequencer("AthAlgSeq")
 job += CfgMgr.EgammaMonitoring('MonitoringAlg', sampleType = particleType)
 
 
-theApp.EvtMax = 100000
+theApp.EvtMax = 60000
 
 
 outputFile = 'Nightly-monitoring_'+particleType+'.hist.root'