diff --git a/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/networkdb/kademlia/FloodfillMonitorJob.java b/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/networkdb/kademlia/FloodfillMonitorJob.java
index 2b1ca90b494d52c52ecb6fb6f4188bf2a010cc09..c040362987d882ada202b5ff59a837d03f02c48e 100644
--- a/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/networkdb/kademlia/FloodfillMonitorJob.java
+++ b/router/java/src/net/i2p/router/networkdb/kademlia/FloodfillMonitorJob.java
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ class FloodfillMonitorJob extends JobImpl {
         // there's a lot of eligible non-floodfills, keep them from all jumping in at once
         // To do: somehow assess the size of the network to make this adaptive?
         if (!ff)
-            delay *= 7;
+            delay *= 4; // this was 7, reduced for moar FFs --zab
         requeue(delay);
     }