diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 26ffdc2..112172d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -20,12 +20,11 @@ jobs:
       postgres:
         image: postgres:14-alpine
         env:
-          TEST_DATABASE_URL: postgres://postgres:postgres@postgres:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable&pool_max_conns=2
           POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
         options: >-
           --health-cmd pg_isready
           --health-interval 10s
-          --health-timeout 5s
+          --health-timeout 10s
           --health-retries 5
       redis:
         image: redis
@@ -42,6 +41,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: test
         run: make mod test coverage
         env:
+          TEST_DATABASE_URL: postgres://postgres:postgres@postgres:5432/postgres?sslmode=disable&pool_max_conns=8
           TEST_REDIS_URL: redis:6379
       - name: upload results
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
diff --git a/backends/postgres/postgres_backend_test.go b/backends/postgres/postgres_backend_test.go
index 17692e2..d518403 100644
--- a/backends/postgres/postgres_backend_test.go
+++ b/backends/postgres/postgres_backend_test.go
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ func TestMultipleProcessors(t *testing.T) {
 
 	var execCount uint32
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-	count := 8
+	count := 4
 	neos := make([]neoq.Neoq, 0, count)
 	// Create several neoq processors such that we can enqueue several jobs and have them consumed by multiple different
 	// workers. We want to make sure that a job is not processed twice in a pool of many different neoq workers.