diff --git a/repos/gems/src/app/sculpt_manager/runtime/nic_drv.cc b/repos/gems/src/app/sculpt_manager/runtime/nic_drv.cc
index 330381e6aa..fc9aa960dd 100644
--- a/repos/gems/src/app/sculpt_manager/runtime/nic_drv.cc
+++ b/repos/gems/src/app/sculpt_manager/runtime/nic_drv.cc
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ void Sculpt::gen_nic_drv_start_content(Xml_generator &xml)
 	                         Cap_quota{300}, Ram_quota{20*1024*1024},
 	                         Priority::NETWORK);
 
-	gen_named_node(xml, "resource", "CPU", [&] () { xml.attribute("quantum", "50"); });
+	gen_named_node(xml, "resource", "CPU", [&] () { xml.attribute("quantum", "10"); });
 
 	xml.node("config", [&] () { });