diff --git a/benchmarks/basic_commands.py b/benchmarks/basic_commands.py
index d4af0d776a23cdd4432ce0afb8e17978c05699aa_YmVuY2htYXJrcy9iYXNpY19jb21tYW5kcy5weQ==..f4a76e419bc8363299188572ef37b4455963c0a2_YmVuY2htYXJrcy9iYXNpY19jb21tYW5kcy5weQ== 100644
--- a/benchmarks/basic_commands.py
+++ b/benchmarks/basic_commands.py
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@
 
 
 class ArchiveTimeTestSuite(BaseTestSuite):
+    # work-around repeat because mozilla central en netbeans are very slow
+    # mercurial's own archive is about a second so it would use more run.
+    repeat = 3
+    number = 1
+
     timeout = 300
     param_names = TimeTestSuite.param_names + ['type']
     # The "file" type have been disabled. It does not yield very different