diff --git a/.cirrus.yml b/.cirrus.yml
index 237560fc2e..a20279737f 100644
--- a/.cirrus.yml
+++ b/.cirrus.yml
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ container:
   memory: 8G  # Set to 8GB to avoid OOM. https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/linux/#linux-containers
   kvm: true  # Use kvm to avoid spurious CI failures in the default virtualization cluster, see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/20093
 env:
+  SECP256K1_TEST_ITERS: 16 # ELEMENTS: avoid test timeouts on arm
   PACKAGE_MANAGER_INSTALL: "apt-get update && apt-get install -y"
-  MAKEJOBS: "-j4"
+  MAKEJOBS: "-j3" # ELEMENTS: reduced from j4
   DANGER_RUN_CI_ON_HOST: "1"  # Containers will be discarded after the run, so there is no risk that the ci scripts modify the system
   TEST_RUNNER_PORT_MIN: "14000"  # Must be larger than 12321, which is used for the http cache. See https://cirrus-ci.org/guide/writing-tasks/#http-cache
   CCACHE_SIZE: "200M"
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ task:
     cpu: 4  # Double CPU and Memory to avoid timeout
     memory: 16G
   env:
-    MAKEJOBS: "-j8"
+    MAKEJOBS: "-j6" # ELEMENTS: reduced from -j8
     FILE_ENV: "./ci/test/00_setup_env_native_tsan.sh"
 
 task: