diff --git a/deployment/charts/fuel-indexer/templates/fuel-indexer-deployment.yaml b/deployment/charts/fuel-indexer/templates/fuel-indexer-deployment.yaml
index 195f46590..e7bc3d8a3 100644
--- a/deployment/charts/fuel-indexer/templates/fuel-indexer-deployment.yaml
+++ b/deployment/charts/fuel-indexer/templates/fuel-indexer-deployment.yaml
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ spec:
             - "--replace-indexer"
             - "--accept-sql-queries"
             - "--block-page-size"
-            - "10"
+            - "50"
+            - "--client-request-delay"
+            - "1"
           env:
           - name: POSTGRES_PASSWORD
             valueFrom:
diff --git a/helm/fuel-indexer/templates/deployment.yaml b/helm/fuel-indexer/templates/deployment.yaml
index ebdeca869..896141dd9 100644
--- a/helm/fuel-indexer/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/helm/fuel-indexer/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ spec:
             - "--replace-indexer"
             - "--accept-sql-queries"
             - "--block-page-size"
-            - "10"
+            - "50"
+            - "--client-request-delay"
+            - "1"
           envFrom:
             - configMapRef:
                 name: fuel-indexer
diff --git a/packages/fuel-indexer-benchmarks/src/bin/qa.rs b/packages/fuel-indexer-benchmarks/src/bin/qa.rs
index 7b0f3a7e7..673e889a8 100644
--- a/packages/fuel-indexer-benchmarks/src/bin/qa.rs
+++ b/packages/fuel-indexer-benchmarks/src/bin/qa.rs
@@ -551,6 +551,10 @@ async fn main() {
         .arg(&postgres_user)
         .arg("--postgres-database")
         .arg(&postgres_db)
+        .arg("--client-request-delay")
+        .arg("1")
+        .arg("--block-page-size")
+        .arg("50")
         .spawn()
         .unwrap();
 
diff --git a/scripts/docker-compose.yaml b/scripts/docker-compose.yaml
index 317c08f43..f10ed7ab4 100644
--- a/scripts/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/scripts/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ services:
       start_period: 80s
   fuel-indexer:
     image: ghcr.io/fuellabs/fuel-indexer:latest
-    command: bash -c "sleep 2 && ./fuel-indexer run --network beta-4 --postgres-host postgres --postgres-password postgres --web-api-host 0.0.0.0 --run-migrations"
+    command: bash -c "sleep 2 && ./fuel-indexer run --network beta-4 --postgres-host postgres --postgres-password postgres --web-api-host 0.0.0.0 --run-migrations --client-request-delay 1 --block-page-size 50"
     ports:
       - "29987:29987"
     volumes: