diff --git a/src/libostree/ostree-repo-private.h b/src/libostree/ostree-repo-private.h
index 0156a541a2..43152affcb 100644
--- a/src/libostree/ostree-repo-private.h
+++ b/src/libostree/ostree-repo-private.h
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ G_BEGIN_DECLS
 #define _OSTREE_SUMMARY_CACHE_DIR "summaries"
 #define _OSTREE_CACHE_DIR "cache"
 
-#define _OSTREE_MAX_OUTSTANDING_FETCHER_REQUESTS 8
+#define _OSTREE_MAX_OUTSTANDING_FETCHER_REQUESTS 2
 #define _OSTREE_MAX_OUTSTANDING_DELTAPART_REQUESTS 2
 
 /* We want some parallelism with disk writes, but we also