diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 0b84391e0d..36692be128 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2572,12 +2572,11 @@ checksum = "b07db065a5cf61a7e4ba64f29e67db906fb1787316516c4e6e5ff0fea1efcd8a"
 [[package]]
 name = "yakv"
 version = "0.1.9"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d9e0d4aaa804d3b7acae0ee0e3c28999dd590a99391f784e18cd037ed9191655"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "crc32c",
  "fs2",
+ "lz4_flex",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/pageserver/Cargo.toml b/pageserver/Cargo.toml
index 9ff186c81a..3c30d6c578 100644
--- a/pageserver/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pageserver/Cargo.toml
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ async-trait = "0.1"
 const_format = "0.2.21"
 tracing = "0.1.27"
 signal-hook = {version = "0.3.10", features = ["extended-siginfo"] }
-#yakv = { path  = "../../yakv" }
-yakv = "0.1.9"
+yakv = { path  = "../../yakv" }
+#yakv = "0.1.9"
 lz4_flex = "0.9.0"
 
 postgres_ffi = { path = "../postgres_ffi" }
diff --git a/pageserver/src/lib.rs b/pageserver/src/lib.rs
index d9c939f1c0..e984f545bd 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/lib.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/lib.rs
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ pub mod defaults {
 
     // Minimal size of WAL records chain to trigger materialization of the page
     pub const DEFAULT_CHECKPOINT_DISTANCE: u64 = 0;
-    pub const DEFAULT_CHECKPOINT_PERIOD: Duration = Duration::from_secs(10);
+    pub const DEFAULT_CHECKPOINT_PERIOD: Duration = Duration::from_secs(1);
 
-    pub const DEFAULT_GC_HORIZON: u64 = 2000_000_000u64;
-    pub const DEFAULT_GC_PERIOD: Duration = Duration::from_secs(10000);
+    pub const DEFAULT_GC_HORIZON: u64 = 1024*1024;
+    pub const DEFAULT_GC_PERIOD: Duration = Duration::from_secs(1);
 
     pub const DEFAULT_SUPERUSER: &str = "zenith_admin";
     pub const DEFAULT_RELISH_STORAGE_MAX_CONCURRENT_SYNC_LIMITS: usize = 100;