diff --git a/pageserver/src/config.rs b/pageserver/src/config.rs
index a6a11910c9..4d1575a21c 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/config.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/config.rs
@@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ background_task_maximum_delay = '334 s'
                 control_plane_api_token: None,
                 control_plane_emergency_mode: false,
                 heatmap_upload_concurrency: defaults::DEFAULT_HEATMAP_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY,
-                ingest_batch_size: 1,
+                ingest_batch_size: 100,
             },
             "Should be able to parse all basic config values correctly"
         );
diff --git a/pageserver/src/walingest.rs b/pageserver/src/walingest.rs
index 4dfb8745ce..bd8dcfad86 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/walingest.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/walingest.rs
@@ -2204,7 +2204,7 @@ mod tests {
         let path = "test_data/sk_wal_segment_from_pgbench";
         let wal_segment_path = format!("{path}/000000010000000000000001.zst");
         let startpoint = Lsn::from_hex("14AEC08").unwrap();
-        let endpoint = Lsn::from_hex("1FFFF98").unwrap();
+        let _endpoint = Lsn::from_hex("1FFFF98").unwrap();
 
         // Bootstrap a real timeline. We can't use create_test_timeline because
         // it doesn't create a real checkpoint, and Walingest::new tries to parse
@@ -2243,7 +2243,7 @@ mod tests {
         let mut walingest = WalIngest::new(tline.as_ref(), startpoint, &ctx)
             .await
             .unwrap();
-        let mut modification = tline.begin_modification(endpoint);
+        let mut modification = tline.begin_modification(startpoint);
         let mut decoded = DecodedWALRecord::default();
         println!("decoding {} bytes", bytes.len() - xlogoff);