diff --git a/.ci/script.sh b/.ci/script.sh
index 865c433d5..701ff6534 100755
--- a/.ci/script.sh
+++ b/.ci/script.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ source "${CI_DIR}/common.sh"
 
 travis_retry make fetchthirdparty
 make all
-retry_cmd 6 make testfront
+retry_cmd 2 make testfront
 set +o pipefail
 luajit $(which luacheck) --no-color -q frontend | tee ./luacheck.out
 test $(grep Total ./luacheck.out | awk '{print $2}') -le 54