diff --git a/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml b/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
index 4263bacce8..a1d661a59b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/_build-and-test-locally.yml
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ jobs:
 
           # run pageserver tests with different settings
           for io_engine in std-fs tokio-epoll-uring ; do
-            NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_VIRTUAL_FILE_IOENGINE=$io_engine ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES  -E 'package(pageserver)'
+            NEON_PAGESERVER_VALUE_RECONSTRUCT_IO_CONCURRENCY=futures-unordered NEON_PAGESERVER_UNIT_TEST_VIRTUAL_FILE_IOENGINE=$io_engine ${cov_prefix} cargo nextest run $CARGO_FLAGS $CARGO_FEATURES  -E 'package(pageserver)'
           done
 
           # Run separate tests for real S3