diff --git a/crates/core/src/helpers/cached_compiler.rs b/crates/core/src/helpers/cached_compiler.rs
index 93017d8..f4f297d 100644
--- a/crates/core/src/helpers/cached_compiler.rs
+++ b/crates/core/src/helpers/cached_compiler.rs
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ async fn compile_contracts(
     // Puts a limit on how many compilations we can perform at any given instance which helps us
     // with some of the errors we've been seeing with high concurrency on MacOS (we have not tried
     // it on Linux so we don't know if these issues also persist there or not.)
-    static SPAWN_GATE: LazyLock<Semaphore> = LazyLock::new(|| Semaphore::new(100));
+    static SPAWN_GATE: LazyLock<Semaphore> = LazyLock::new(|| Semaphore::new(5));
     let _permit = SPAWN_GATE.acquire().await?;
 
     let all_sources_in_dir = FilesWithExtensionIterator::new(metadata_directory.as_ref())