diff --git a/tests/gc/growobjcrash.nim b/tests/gc/growobjcrash.nim
index 00620fed3c..a16468c7e8 100644
--- a/tests/gc/growobjcrash.nim
+++ b/tests/gc/growobjcrash.nim
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ proc handleRequest(query: string): StringTableRef =
   let x = foo
   result = x()
 
-const Limit = when compileOption("gc", "markAndSweep"): 5*1024*1024 else: 500_000
+const Limit = when compileOption("gc", "markAndSweep"): 5*1024*1024 else: 700_000
 
 proc main =
   var counter = 0