diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
index 56faacbaee..09ddb19765 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/timeline.rs
@@ -3531,7 +3531,7 @@ impl Timeline {
                         self.get_compaction_threshold(),
                         DEFAULT_COMPACTION_THRESHOLD,
                     )
-                    && frozen_layer_total_size >= /* 64 MB */ 64000000
+                    && frozen_layer_total_size >= /* 128 MB */ 128000000
                 {
                     tracing::warn!(
                         "too many frozen layers: {num_frozen_layers} layers with estimated in-mem size of {frozen_layer_total_size} bytes",
diff --git a/test_runner/fixtures/pageserver/allowed_errors.py b/test_runner/fixtures/pageserver/allowed_errors.py
index fa85563e35..d05704c8e0 100755
--- a/test_runner/fixtures/pageserver/allowed_errors.py
+++ b/test_runner/fixtures/pageserver/allowed_errors.py
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ DEFAULT_PAGESERVER_ALLOWED_ERRORS = (
     ".*WARN.*path=/v1/utilization .*request was dropped before completing",
     # Can happen during shutdown
     ".*scheduling deletion on drop failed: queue is in state Stopped.*",
+    # Too many frozen layers error is normal during intensive benchmarks
+    ".*too many frozen layers.*",
 )