diff --git a/sqlitecluster/SQLiteNode.cpp b/sqlitecluster/SQLiteNode.cpp
index 32f86efda..8228d29ee 100644
--- a/sqlitecluster/SQLiteNode.cpp
+++ b/sqlitecluster/SQLiteNode.cpp
@@ -2083,6 +2083,8 @@ void SQLiteNode::_changeState(SQLiteNodeState newState, uint64_t commitIDToCance
     }
 }
 
+static int __ATTEMPTS = 0;
+
 void SQLiteNode::_queueSynchronize(const SQLiteNode* const node, SQLitePeer* peer, SQLite& db, SData& response, bool sendAll) {
     // We need this to check the state of the node, and we also need `name` to make the logging macros work in a static
     // function. However, if you pass a null pointer here, we can't set these, so we'll fail. We also can't log that,
@@ -2139,7 +2141,12 @@ void SQLiteNode::_queueSynchronize(const SQLiteNode* const node, SQLitePeer* pee
             // We set this for all commits because this only gets all commits in response to SUBSCRIBE, which is done synchronously, and blocks the commit thread.
             // For asynchronous queries, there's nothing being blocked, so it doesn't much matter how long these take.
             // This is really not the correct encapsulation for this, but we can improve that later.
-            timeoutLimitUS = 100;
+            if (__ATTEMPTS) {
+                timeoutLimitUS = 10'000;
+            } else {
+                timeoutLimitUS = 100;
+            }
+            __ATTEMPTS++;
         } else {
             toIndex = min(toIndex, fromIndex + 100); // 100 transactions at a time
         }