diff --git a/crates/database/db/src/db.rs b/crates/database/db/src/db.rs
index 2705111e..ac27f3f0 100644
--- a/crates/database/db/src/db.rs
+++ b/crates/database/db/src/db.rs
@@ -27,14 +27,23 @@ use tokio::sync::{Mutex, Semaphore};
 const BUSY_TIMEOUT_SECS: u64 = 5;
 
 /// The maximum number of connections in the database connection pool.
-const MAX_CONNECTIONS: u32 = 32;
+const MAX_CONNECTIONS: u32 = 6;
 
 /// The minimum number of connections in the database connection pool.
-const MIN_CONNECTIONS: u32 = 5;
+const MIN_CONNECTIONS: u32 = 2;
 
 /// The timeout for acquiring a connection from the pool.
 const ACQUIRE_TIMEOUT_SECS: u64 = 5;
 
+/// The cache size in KB
+const CACHE_SIZE_KB: &str = "-131072"; // 128 MB
+
+/// The mmap size in bytes
+const MMAP_SIZE_BYTES: &str = "536870912"; // 512 MB
+
+/// The wal auto checkpoint size in pages
+const WAL_AUTO_CHECKPOINT_PAGES: &str = "50000"; // 200 MB (with default page size of 4 KB)
+
 /// A wrapper around `DatabaseInner` which provides retry features.
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct Database {
@@ -595,7 +604,11 @@ impl DatabaseInner {
             .journal_mode(sea_orm::sqlx::sqlite::SqliteJournalMode::Wal)
             .busy_timeout(Duration::from_secs(busy_timeout_secs))
             .foreign_keys(true)
-            .synchronous(sea_orm::sqlx::sqlite::SqliteSynchronous::Normal);
+            .synchronous(sea_orm::sqlx::sqlite::SqliteSynchronous::Normal)
+            .pragma("cache_size", CACHE_SIZE_KB)
+            .pragma("mmap_size", MMAP_SIZE_BYTES)
+            .pragma("wal_autocheckpoint", WAL_AUTO_CHECKPOINT_PAGES)
+            .pragma("temp_store", "MEMORY");
 
         let sqlx_pool = SqlitePoolOptions::new()
             .max_connections(max_connections)
diff --git a/crates/derivation-pipeline/src/lib.rs b/crates/derivation-pipeline/src/lib.rs
index ed245e89..e34f00a2 100644
--- a/crates/derivation-pipeline/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/derivation-pipeline/src/lib.rs
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ impl Stream for DerivationPipeline {
 }
 
 /// The maximum number of concurrent batch derivation futures.
-const DERIVATION_PIPELINE_WORKER_CONCURRENCY: usize = 5;
+const DERIVATION_PIPELINE_WORKER_CONCURRENCY: usize = 3;
 
 /// A structure holding the current unresolved futures for the derivation pipeline.
 #[derive(Debug)]
diff --git a/sequencer-migration/send-l1-messages.sh b/sequencer-migration/send-l1-messages.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 73ef984f..9e289939
--- a/sequencer-migration/send-l1-messages.sh
+++ b/sequencer-migration/send-l1-messages.sh
@@ -78,5 +78,7 @@ main() {
     log_info "Next queue index:  $next_queue_index "
     done
 
-    echo "Done"
+    log_info "Done"
 }
+
+main "$@"