diff --git a/yarn-project/end-to-end/bootstrap.sh b/yarn-project/end-to-end/bootstrap.sh
index 011679338e8f..cc3730999c9f 100755
--- a/yarn-project/end-to-end/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/yarn-project/end-to-end/bootstrap.sh
@@ -198,11 +198,14 @@ function avm_check_circuit_cmds {
   # Commands run from repo root via parallelize, so use path from top
   local dump_dir_from_top="yarn-project/end-to-end/$default_avm_inputs_dump_dir"
 
-  # Specify timeout and resources
-  # WARNING: theoretically, transactions could need more CPU and MEM than we allocate by default.
-  # In that case, they might start timing out. For now, all of the e2e test txs seem to be relatively
-  # small and the AVM can run check-circuit with limited resources.
-  local prefix="$hash:ISOLATE=1:TIMEOUT=30s"
+  # Specify timeout and resources.
+  # Most e2e test txs produce small AVM traces that check-circuit clears in a few seconds at the
+  # default 2 CPUs. A few txs (e.g. e2e_multiple_blobs) are much larger (~700k circuit rows) and need
+  # ~30-40s for trace generation plus check-circuit, so the previous 30s budget was right on the edge
+  # and flaked. The timeout is generous (rather than raising CPUS) because bumping per-test CPUS halves
+  # the parallel scheduler's concurrency for every tx, penalizing the small common case to help a few
+  # large outliers; a longer timeout only lets the rare large tx hold its slot a bit longer.
+  local prefix="$hash:ISOLATE=1:TIMEOUT=120s"
 
   # Find all .bin files in the dump directory (handles nested dirs)
   for input_file in "$default_avm_inputs_dump_dir"/*/*.bin "$default_avm_inputs_dump_dir"/*/*/*.bin; do