diff --git a/pageserver/src/tenant/tasks.rs b/pageserver/src/tenant/tasks.rs
index 5f39c46a84..6b2e81dca7 100644
--- a/pageserver/src/tenant/tasks.rs
+++ b/pageserver/src/tenant/tasks.rs
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ async fn compaction_loop(tenant: Arc<Tenant>, cancel: CancellationToken) {
 
             // Perhaps we did no work and the walredo process has been idle for some time:
             // give it a chance to shut down to avoid leaving walredo process running indefinitely.
-            tenant.walredo_mgr.maybe_quiesce(period * 10);
+            tenant.walredo_mgr.maybe_quiesce(period * 10); // TODO: broken with compaction_period 0
 
             // Sleep
             if tokio::time::timeout(sleep_duration, cancel.cancelled())
diff --git a/test_runner/performance/pageserver/pagebench/test_pageserver_max_throughput_getpage_at_latest_lsn.py b/test_runner/performance/pageserver/pagebench/test_pageserver_max_throughput_getpage_at_latest_lsn.py
index 1ed7e577b9..a2ffa385d9 100644
--- a/test_runner/performance/pageserver/pagebench/test_pageserver_max_throughput_getpage_at_latest_lsn.py
+++ b/test_runner/performance/pageserver/pagebench/test_pageserver_max_throughput_getpage_at_latest_lsn.py
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ def test_pageserver_max_throughput_getpage_at_latest_lsn(
     for param, (value, kwargs) in params.items():
         record(param, metric_value=value, report=MetricReport.TEST_PARAM, **kwargs)
     env = setup_pageserver_with_pgbench_tenants(neon_env_builder, pg_bin, n_tenants, pgbench_scale)
+    ps_http =env.pageserver.http_client()
+    for tenant_info in ps_http.tenant_list():
+        tenant_id = tenant_info["id"]
+        ps_http.patch_tenant_config_client_side(tenant_id, {"compaction_period": "10s"})
     run_benchmark_max_throughput_latest_lsn(env, pg_bin, record, duration)