diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e4f6a87b76..9196015057 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -246,14 +246,13 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "async-timer"
-version = "1.0.0-beta.15"
+version = "0.7.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1d420af8e042475e58a20d91af8eda7d6528989418c03f3f527e1c3415696f70"
+checksum = "ba5fa6ed76cb2aa820707b4eb9ec46f42da9ce70b0eafab5e5e34942b38a44d5"
 dependencies = [
- "error-code",
  "libc",
  "wasm-bindgen",
- "web-time",
+ "winapi",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1932,12 +1931,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "error-code"
-version = "3.3.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "a5d9305ccc6942a704f4335694ecd3de2ea531b114ac2d51f5f843750787a92f"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "event-listener"
 version = "2.5.3"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index bf4ed0ed82..d74efd51f8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ anyhow = { version = "1.0", features = ["backtrace"] }
 arc-swap = "1.6"
 async-compression = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["tokio", "gzip", "zstd"] }
 atomic-take = "1.1.0"
-async-timer = "1.0.0-beta.15"
+async-timer = "0.7.4"
 azure_core = { version = "0.19", default-features = false, features = ["enable_reqwest_rustls", "hmac_rust"] }
 azure_identity = { version = "0.19", default-features = false, features = ["enable_reqwest_rustls"] }
 azure_storage = { version = "0.19", default-features = false, features = ["enable_reqwest_rustls"] }
diff --git a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
index 3e01887355..c32f889958 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/page_service.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 use anyhow::{bail, Context};
 use async_compression::tokio::write::GzipEncoder;
-use async_timer::Timer;
+use async_timer::Oneshot;
 use bytes::Buf;
 use futures::FutureExt;
 use itertools::Itertools;
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ struct PageServerHandler {
     /// See [`PageServerConf::server_side_batch_timeout`]
     server_side_batch_timeout: Option<Duration>,
 
-    server_side_batch_timer: Pin<Box<async_timer::timer::Platform>>,
+    server_side_batch_timer: Pin<Box<async_timer::oneshot::Timer>>,
 }
 
 struct Carry {
@@ -589,7 +589,9 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
             timeline_handles: TimelineHandles::new(tenant_manager),
             cancel,
             server_side_batch_timeout,
-            server_side_batch_timer: Box::pin(async_timer::new_timer(Duration::from_secs(999))), // reset each iteration
+            server_side_batch_timer: Box::pin(async_timer::oneshot::Timer::new(
+                Duration::from_secs(999),
+            )), // reset each iteration
         }
     }
 
@@ -666,7 +668,12 @@ impl PageServerHandler {
                                         .msg
                                 ]));
                             } else {
-                                self.server_side_batch_timer.restart(batch_timeout);
+                                std::future::poll_fn(|ctx| {
+                                    self.server_side_batch_timer
+                                        .restart(batch_timeout, ctx.waker());
+                                    std::task::Poll::Ready(())
+                                })
+                                .await;
                                 batching_deadline_storage = Some(&mut self.server_side_batch_timer);
                                 Either::Right(
                                     batching_deadline_storage.as_mut().expect("we just set it"),
diff --git a/test_runner/performance/pageserver/test_pageserver_getpage_merge.py b/test_runner/performance/pageserver/test_pageserver_getpage_merge.py
index 850bc1b8df..be7cf66c79 100644
--- a/test_runner/performance/pageserver/test_pageserver_getpage_merge.py
+++ b/test_runner/performance/pageserver/test_pageserver_getpage_merge.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from fixtures.log_helper import log
 from fixtures.neon_fixtures import NeonEnvBuilder
 from fixtures.utils import humantime_to_ms
 
-TARGET_RUNTIME = 5
+TARGET_RUNTIME = 60
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
@@ -18,12 +18,10 @@ TARGET_RUNTIME = 5
         # the next 4 cases demonstrate how not-batchable workloads suffer from batching timeout
         (50, None, TARGET_RUNTIME, 1, 128, "not batchable no batching"),
         (50, "10us", TARGET_RUNTIME, 1, 128, "not batchable 10us timeout"),
-        (50, "20us", TARGET_RUNTIME, 1, 128, "not batchable 20us timeout"),
         (50, "1ms", TARGET_RUNTIME, 1, 128, "not batchable 1ms timeout"),
         # the next 4 cases demonstrate how batchable workloads benefit from batching
         (50, None, TARGET_RUNTIME, 100, 128, "batchable no batching"),
         (50, "10us", TARGET_RUNTIME, 100, 128, "batchable 10us timeout"),
-        (50, "20us", TARGET_RUNTIME, 100, 128, "batchable 20us timeout"),
         (50, "100us", TARGET_RUNTIME, 100, 128, "batchable 100us timeout"),
         (50, "1ms", TARGET_RUNTIME, 100, 128, "batchable 1ms timeout"),
     ],