diff --git a/.github/workflows/lexbox-api.yaml b/.github/workflows/lexbox-api.yaml
index 5d5a03272..77fef42d4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lexbox-api.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lexbox-api.yaml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Dotnet build
         run: dotnet build
       - name: Unit tests
-        run: dotnet test --logger xunit --results-directory ./test-results --filter "Category!=Integration" --blame-hang-timeout 5m
+        run: dotnet test --logger xunit --results-directory ./test-results --filter "Category!=Integration" --blame-hang-timeout 10m
       - name: Upload test results
         uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
         if: always()
diff --git a/backend/Testing/SyncReverseProxy/SendReceiveServiceTests.cs b/backend/Testing/SyncReverseProxy/SendReceiveServiceTests.cs
index c3d9f5e24..d3d2ea850 100644
--- a/backend/Testing/SyncReverseProxy/SendReceiveServiceTests.cs
+++ b/backend/Testing/SyncReverseProxy/SendReceiveServiceTests.cs
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ await apiTester
         HgRunner.Run("""hg commit -m "first commit" """, sendReceiveParams.DestDir, 1, progress);
 
         //add a bunch of small files, must be in separate commits otherwise hg runs out of memory. But we want the push to be large
-        const int totalSizeMb = 100;
+        const int totalSizeMb = 180;
         const int fileCount = 10;
         for (int i = 1; i <= fileCount; i++)
         {