diff --git a/plugins/redis/test_redis_cache.ts b/plugins/redis/test_redis_cache.ts
index d13a96b..78905a4 100644
--- a/plugins/redis/test_redis_cache.ts
+++ b/plugins/redis/test_redis_cache.ts
@@ -558,9 +558,9 @@ describe('REDIS Plugin Tests', function() {
       );
 
       // Since our bogus synchronization strategy doesn't actually synchronize,
-      // at least five responses should be cache misses (this depends on random
+      // at least two responses should be cache misses (this depends on random
       // timing and might be a little flaky).
-      assert(responses.filter(response => !response.returnedFromCache).length > 5);
+      assert(responses.filter(response => !response.returnedFromCache).length > 1);
     });
   
     it('Can stream a hundred thousand bytes to a file in ten chunks', async () => {
diff --git a/test/tests.ts b/test/tests.ts
index 23b778f..b07a1f0 100644
--- a/test/tests.ts
+++ b/test/tests.ts
@@ -526,9 +526,9 @@ describe('Data tests', () => {
     );
 
     // Since our bogus synchronization strategy doesn't actually synchronize,
-    // at least five responses should be cache misses (this depends on random
+    // at least two responses should be cache misses (this depends on random
     // timing and might be a little flaky).
-    assert(responses.filter(response => !response.returnedFromCache).length > 5);
+    assert(responses.filter(response => !response.returnedFromCache).length > 1);
   });
 
   it('Can stream a hundred thousand bytes to a file in ten chunks', async () => {