diff --git a/govtool/backend/app/Main.hs b/govtool/backend/app/Main.hs
index e8372f0e8..02f217e21 100644
--- a/govtool/backend/app/Main.hs
+++ b/govtool/backend/app/Main.hs
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ startApp vvaConfig sentryService = do
       , dRepListCache
       , networkMetricsCache
       }
-  connectionPool <- createPool (connectPostgreSQL (encodeUtf8 (dbSyncConnectionString $ getter vvaConfig))) close 10 10 120
+  connectionPool <- createPool (connectPostgreSQL (encodeUtf8 (dbSyncConnectionString $ getter vvaConfig))) close 1 10 60
   let appEnv = AppEnv {vvaConfig=vvaConfig, vvaCache=cacheEnv, vvaConnectionPool=connectionPool }
   server' <- mkVVAServer appEnv
   runSettings settings server'