diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/failure/delete-rtree.aql b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/failure/delete-rtree.aql
index 465d94f..6fc11e5 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/failure/delete-rtree.aql
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/failure/delete-rtree.aql
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 using "edu.uci.ics.asterix.external.dataset.adapter.NCFileSystemAdapter"
 (("path"="nc1://data/twitter/smalltweets.txt"),("format"="adm")) pre-sorted;
 
-delete $l from dataset MyData where $l.id>=50 die after 1500;
+delete $l from dataset MyData where $l.id>=50 die after 1000;
 
 write output to nc1:"rttest/failure_delete-rtree.adm";      
 
diff --git a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/failure/delete.aql b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/failure/delete.aql
index cd4a922..3da88f8 100644
--- a/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/failure/delete.aql
+++ b/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries/failure/delete.aql
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 using "edu.uci.ics.asterix.external.dataset.adapter.NCFileSystemAdapter"
 (("path"="nc1://data/tpch0.001/lineitem.tbl"),("format"="delimited-text"),("delimiter"="|")) pre-sorted;
 
-delete $l from dataset LineItem where $l.l_orderkey>=10 die after 1500;
+delete $l from dataset LineItem where $l.l_orderkey>=10 die after 1000;
 
 write output to nc1:"rttest/failure_delete.adm";      
 for $c in dataset('LineItem')