diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/files/crawler.cron b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/files/crawler.cron
index 5f1ab7aea5..33f3967f30 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/files/crawler.cron
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/files/crawler.cron
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # run the crawler twice a day
 # logs sent to /var/log/mirrormanager/crawler.log and crawl/* by default
 #
-# [ "`hostname -s`" == "mm-crawler02" ] && sleep 2h is used to start the crawl
+# [ "`hostname -s`" == "mm-crawler02" ] && sleep 6h is used to start the crawl
 # later on the second crawler to reduce the number of parallel accesses to
 # the database
 #
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@
 # wait for 5 minutes to give the crawler a chance to shutdown. After that the
 # crawler is killed.  To make sure we only end the cron started crawler we look
 # for the following process "/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/mm2_crawler --threads 25".
-0 */12 * * * mirrormanager [ "`hostname -s`" == "mm-crawler02" ] && sleep 2h; pkill -14 -f "^/usr/bin/python2 -s /usr/bin/mm2_crawler --threads 25"; sleep 5m; pkill -9 -f "^/usr/bin/python2 -s /usr/bin/mm2_crawler --threads 25"; /usr/bin/mm2_crawler --threads 25 --timeout-minutes 180 `/usr/local/bin/run_crawler.sh 2` > /dev/null 2>&1
+0 */12 * * * mirrormanager [ "`hostname -s`" == "mm-crawler02" ] && sleep 6h; pkill -14 -f "^/usr/bin/python2 -s /usr/bin/mm2_crawler --threads 20"; sleep 5m; pkill -9 -f "^/usr/bin/python2 -s /usr/bin/mm2_crawler --threads 20"; /usr/bin/mm2_crawler --threads 20 --timeout-minutes 240 `/usr/local/bin/run_crawler.sh 2` > /dev/null 2>&1