diff --git a/tests/particle/dsge_base2.mod b/tests/particle/dsge_base2.mod
index 8e227f50b6ae76a8a1c071622ba525652b6d0c26..990e310cdb12de896ce463728cebc7b2d1318963 100644
--- a/tests/particle/dsge_base2.mod
+++ b/tests/particle/dsge_base2.mod
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ options_.particle.status = 1;
 options_.particle.algorithm = 'sequential_importance_particle_filter';
 options_.particle.initialization = 1;
 options_.particle.pruning = 1;
-options_.particle.number_of_particles = 20000;
+options_.particle.number_of_particles = 2000;
 options_.particle.resampling.status = 'systematic';
 options_.particle.resampling.neff_threshold = .1;