diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/internal/spyking_circus2.py b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/internal/spyking_circus2.py
index fb5a15192d..77575e0ce3 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/sorters/internal/spyking_circus2.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/sorters/internal/spyking_circus2.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class Spykingcircus2Sorter(ComponentsBasedSorter):
         "matched_filtering": True,
         "cache_preprocessing": {"mode": "memory", "memory_limit": 0.5, "delete_cache": True},
         "multi_units_only": False,
-        "job_kwargs": {"n_jobs": 0.8},
+        "job_kwargs": {"n_jobs": 0.5},
         "seed": 42,
         "debug": False,
     }