diff --git a/yarn-project/end-to-end/bootstrap.sh b/yarn-project/end-to-end/bootstrap.sh
index cdcc63da983d..35c074593169 100755
--- a/yarn-project/end-to-end/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/yarn-project/end-to-end/bootstrap.sh
@@ -253,11 +253,9 @@ function avm_check_circuit_cmds {
   # Commands run from repo root via parallelize, so use path from top
   local dump_dir_from_top="yarn-project/end-to-end/$default_avm_inputs_dump_dir"
 
-  # Specify timeout and resources
-  # WARNING: theoretically, transactions could need more CPU and MEM than we allocate by default.
-  # In that case, they might start timing out. For now, all of the e2e test txs seem to be relatively
-  # small and the AVM can run check-circuit with limited resources.
-  local prefix="$hash:ISOLATE=1:TIMEOUT=30s"
+  # Specify timeout and resources. Some dumped inputs produce large AVM traces, so give each
+  # check-circuit run enough CPU quota and wall time while keeping 16-way parallelism within CI capacity.
+  local prefix="$hash:ISOLATE=1:CPUS=4:MEM=8g:TIMEOUT=60s"
 
   # Find all .bin files in the dump directory (handles nested dirs, e.g. the 3-segment
   # single-node/block-building/block_building dump path needs the 4-level glob).