diff --git a/scripts/benchmark-scripts/Moore_data_max_candidates_test.sh b/scripts/benchmark-scripts/Moore_data_max_candidates_test.sh
index 474b3904e5a6a12d13c6b9b3dffdc929726654ef..a5635baa82aac370e4fb6aa6fdb3d0d6d1182968 100755
--- a/scripts/benchmark-scripts/Moore_data_max_candidates_test.sh
+++ b/scripts/benchmark-scripts/Moore_data_max_candidates_test.sh
@@ -12,11 +12,13 @@
 echo "Running Moore For Max Candidates data test"
 # Set configuration variables and check configuration makes sense
 if [ -z "${OVERRIDE_EVTMAX}" ]; then
-    EVTMAX=-1
+    EVTMAX=60000
 else
     EVTMAX=${OVERRIDE_EVTMAX}
 fi
 
-time python $HLT2CONFROOT/python/Hlt2Conf/tests/run_max_candidates_job.py -n $EVTMAX --test-file-db-key=2024_hlt1_mdf_dumps_ReverseGEC12K '$HLT2CONFROOT/tests/options/hlt2_max_candidates_pp_2024.py'
+MOORE_THREADS=${LBN_BUILD_JOBS:-1}
+
+time python $HLT2CONFROOT/python/Hlt2Conf/tests/run_max_candidates_job.py -d -n $EVTMAX -t $MOORE_THREADS --test-file-db-key=2024_hlt1_mdf_dumps_ReverseGEC12K '$HLT2CONFROOT/tests/options/hlt2_max_candidates_pp_2024.py'
 
 time python $HLT2CONFROOT/python/Hlt2Conf/tests/analyze_max_candidates.py