diff --git a/src/network-workloads/model-net-mpi-replay.c b/src/network-workloads/model-net-mpi-replay.c
index 1cf5a510d6534792318dfbdaa79c68d376b965e3..0a29f736a66025d6a847b83cedc81a5101a4cb25 100644
--- a/src/network-workloads/model-net-mpi-replay.c
+++ b/src/network-workloads/model-net-mpi-replay.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int wrkld_id;
 static int num_net_traces = 0;
 static int priority_type = 0;
 static int num_dumpi_traces = 0;
-static int64_t EAGER_THRESHOLD = INT_MAX;
+static int64_t EAGER_THRESHOLD = 8192;
 
 static long num_ops = 0;
 static int upper_threshold = 1048576;