diff --git a/config/jobs/kubernetes/sig-node/sig-node-presubmit.yaml b/config/jobs/kubernetes/sig-node/sig-node-presubmit.yaml
index 75d68576d429..96a29ff60a77 100644
--- a/config/jobs/kubernetes/sig-node/sig-node-presubmit.yaml
+++ b/config/jobs/kubernetes/sig-node/sig-node-presubmit.yaml
@@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ presubmits:
         - --
         - --repo-root=.
         - --gcp-zone=us-west1-b
-        - --parallelism=8
+        - --parallelism=2
         - --focus-regex=\[NodeConformance\]|\[NodeFeature:.+\]|\[NodeFeature\]
         - --skip-regex=\[Flaky\]|\[Slow\]|\[Serial\]
         - --timeout=3h