diff --git a/xtask/src/main.rs b/xtask/src/main.rs
index 5ef02de..12b6f0f 100644
--- a/xtask/src/main.rs
+++ b/xtask/src/main.rs
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ fn try_regression() -> Result<(usize, usize, usize), DynError> {
     const GAMES: usize = 100;
     // limit the parallelism
     rayon::ThreadPoolBuilder::new()
-        .num_threads(std::thread::available_parallelism()?.get() / 4)
+        .num_threads(std::thread::available_parallelism()?.get() / 8)
         .build_global()
         .unwrap();