diff --git a/contrib/assign.sh b/contrib/assign.sh
index 23cbc945451..edc7777a168 100755
--- a/contrib/assign.sh
+++ b/contrib/assign.sh
@@ -38,5 +38,5 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ROCKSDBDIR}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
 
 pushd cmd/dgraphassigner &> /dev/null
 go build .
-./dgraphassigner --numInstances 1 --instanceIdx 0 --rdfgzips $benchmark/actor-director.gz --uids ~/dgraph/u --stw_ram_mb 6000
+./dgraphassigner --numInstances 1 --instanceIdx 0 --rdfgzips $benchmark/actor-director.gz --uids ~/dgraph/u --stw_ram_mb 3500
 popd &> /dev/null
diff --git a/contrib/loader.sh b/contrib/loader.sh
index a09a9338234..d9340b4e406 100755
--- a/contrib/loader.sh
+++ b/contrib/loader.sh
@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ROCKSDBDIR}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
 
 pushd cmd/dgraphloader &> /dev/null
 go build .
-./dgraphloader --numInstances 1 --instanceIdx 0 --rdfgzips $benchmark/actor-director.gz --uids ~/dgraph/u --postings ~/dgraph/p --stw_ram_mb 6000
+./dgraphloader --numInstances 1 --instanceIdx 0 --rdfgzips $benchmark/actor-director.gz --uids ~/dgraph/u --postings ~/dgraph/p --stw_ram_mb 3500
 popd &> /dev/null
diff --git a/contrib/simple-e2e.sh b/contrib/simple-e2e.sh
index 052049864d8..13e9dea6d41 100755
--- a/contrib/simple-e2e.sh
+++ b/contrib/simple-e2e.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ROCKSDBDIR}:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
 
 pushd cmd/dgraph &> /dev/null
 go build .
-./dgraph --uids ~/dgraph/u0 --postings ~/dgraph/p0 --mutations ~/dgraph/m0 --stw_ram_mb 6000 &
+./dgraph --uids ~/dgraph/u0 --postings ~/dgraph/p0 --mutations ~/dgraph/m0 &
 
 # Wait for server to start in the background.
 until nc -z 127.0.0.1 8080;