diff --git a/t/evaluator/evaluate-oom-job.t b/t/evaluator/evaluate-oom-job.t
index 6c17d4e4..8f0450c5 100644
--- a/t/evaluator/evaluate-oom-job.t
+++ b/t/evaluator/evaluate-oom-job.t
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ if ($sd_res != 0) {
   skip_all("`systemd-run` returned non-zero when executing `true` (expected 0)");
 }
 
+# XXX(Mindavi): We should think about how to fix this.
+#               Note that it was always skipped on ofborg/h.n.o (nixos hydra) since systemd-run is not present in the ambient environment there.
+skip_all("Always fails, an error about 'oom' being a string is logged and the process never OOMs. Needs a way to use more memory.");
+
 my $ctx = test_context();
 
 # Contain the memory usage to 25 MegaBytes using `systemd-run`
diff --git a/t/lib/HydraTestContext.pm b/t/lib/HydraTestContext.pm
index e1a5b226..1d6fa909 100644
--- a/t/lib/HydraTestContext.pm
+++ b/t/lib/HydraTestContext.pm
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ sub new {
         $opts{'before_init'}->($self);
     }
 
-    expectOkay(5, ("hydra-init"));
+    expectOkay(30, ("hydra-init"));
 
     return $self;
 }
diff --git a/t/lib/LDAPContext.pm b/t/lib/LDAPContext.pm
index 2cd1a19d..df1334f0 100644
--- a/t/lib/LDAPContext.pm
+++ b/t/lib/LDAPContext.pm
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ sub add_user {
     my $email = $opts{'email'} // "$name\@example";
     my $password = $opts{'password'} // rand_chars();
 
-    my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(1, ("slappasswd", "-s", $password));
+    my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(5, ("slappasswd", "-s", $password));
     if ($res) {
         die "Failed to execute slappasswd ($res): $stderr, $stdout";
     }
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ sub start {
 sub validateConfig {
     my ($self) = @_;
 
-    expectOkay(1, ("slaptest", "-u", "-F", $self->{"_slapd_dir"}));
+    expectOkay(5, ("slaptest", "-u", "-F", $self->{"_slapd_dir"}));
 }
 
 sub _spawn {
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ sub load_ldif {
 
     my $path = "${\$self->{'_tmpdir'}}/load.ldif";
     write_file($path, $content);
-    expectOkay(1, ("slapadd", "-F", $self->{"_slapd_dir"}, "-b", $suffix, "-l", $path));
+    expectOkay(5, ("slapadd", "-F", $self->{"_slapd_dir"}, "-b", $suffix, "-l", $path));
     $self->validateConfig();
 }
 
diff --git a/t/queue-runner/build-locally-with-substitutable-path.t b/t/queue-runner/build-locally-with-substitutable-path.t
index e3b31761..6477635a 100644
--- a/t/queue-runner/build-locally-with-substitutable-path.t
+++ b/t/queue-runner/build-locally-with-substitutable-path.t
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ subtest "Building, caching, and then garbage collecting the underlying job" => s
 
     ok(unlink(Hydra::Helper::Nix::gcRootFor($path)), "Unlinking the GC root for underlying Dependency succeeds");
 
-    (my $ret, my $stdout, my $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(5, "nix-store", "--delete", $path);
+    (my $ret, my $stdout, my $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(15, "nix-store", "--delete", $path);
     is($ret, 0, "Deleting the underlying dependency should succeed");
 };
 
diff --git a/t/scripts/hydra-create-user.t b/t/scripts/hydra-create-user.t
index 71a5eda3..7f943f9d 100644
--- a/t/scripts/hydra-create-user.t
+++ b/t/scripts/hydra-create-user.t
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ my $db = $ctx->db();
 
 subtest "Handling password and password hash creation" => sub {
     subtest "Creating a user with a plain text password (insecure) stores the password securely" => sub {
-        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(5, ("hydra-create-user", "plain-text-user", "--password", "foobar"));
+        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(15, ("hydra-create-user", "plain-text-user", "--password", "foobar"));
         is($res, 0, "hydra-create-user should exit zero");
         like($stderr, qr/Submitting plaintext passwords as arguments is deprecated and will be removed/, "Submitting a plain text password is deprecated.");
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ subtest "Handling password and password hash creation" => sub {
     };
 
     subtest "Creating a user with a sha1 password (still insecure) stores the password as a hashed sha1" => sub {
-        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(5, ("hydra-create-user", "old-password-hash-user", "--password-hash", "8843d7f92416211de9ebb963ff4ce28125932878"));
+        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(15, ("hydra-create-user", "old-password-hash-user", "--password-hash", "8843d7f92416211de9ebb963ff4ce28125932878"));
         is($res, 0, "hydra-create-user should exit zero");
 
         my $user = $db->resultset('Users')->find({ username => "old-password-hash-user" });
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ subtest "Handling password and password hash creation" => sub {
     };
 
     subtest "Creating a user with an argon2 password stores the password as given" => sub {
-        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(5, ("hydra-create-user", "argon2-hash-user", "--password-hash", '$argon2id$v=19$m=262144,t=3,p=1$tMnV5paYjmIrUIb6hylaNA$M8/e0i3NGrjhOliVLa5LqQ'));
+        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(15, ("hydra-create-user", "argon2-hash-user", "--password-hash", '$argon2id$v=19$m=262144,t=3,p=1$tMnV5paYjmIrUIb6hylaNA$M8/e0i3NGrjhOliVLa5LqQ'));
         is($res, 0, "hydra-create-user should exit zero");
 
         my $user = $db->resultset('Users')->find({ username => "argon2-hash-user" });
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ subtest "Handling password and password hash creation" => sub {
 
     subtest "Creating a user by prompting for the password" => sub {
         subtest "with the same password twice" => sub {
-            my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderrWithStdin(5, ["hydra-create-user", "prompted-pass-user", "--password-prompt"], "my-password\nmy-password\n");
+            my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderrWithStdin(15, ["hydra-create-user", "prompted-pass-user", "--password-prompt"], "my-password\nmy-password\n");
             is($res, 0, "hydra-create-user should exit zero");
 
             my $user = $db->resultset('Users')->find({ username => "prompted-pass-user" });
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ subtest "Handling password and password hash creation" => sub {
         };
 
         subtest "With mismatched password confirmation" => sub {
-            my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderrWithStdin(5, ["hydra-create-user", "prompted-pass-user", "--password-prompt"], "my-password\nnot-my-password\n");
+            my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderrWithStdin(15, ["hydra-create-user", "prompted-pass-user", "--password-prompt"], "my-password\nnot-my-password\n");
             isnt($res, 0, "hydra-create-user should exit non-zero");
         };
     };
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ subtest "Handling password and password hash creation" => sub {
         );
 
         for my $case (@cases) {
-            my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(5, (
+            my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(15, (
                 "hydra-create-user", "bogus-password-options", @{$case}));
             like($stderr, qr/please specify only one of --password-prompt or --password-hash/, "We get an error about specifying the password");
             isnt($res, 0, "hydra-create-user should exit non-zero with conflicting " . join(" ", @{$case}));
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ subtest "Handling password and password hash creation" => sub {
     };
 
     subtest "A password is not required for creating a Google-based account" => sub {
-        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(5, (
+        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(15, (
             "hydra-create-user", "google-account", "--type", "google"));
         is($res, 0, "hydra-create-user should exit zero");
     };
diff --git a/t/scripts/hydra-init.t b/t/scripts/hydra-init.t
index bd5bd4bf..603aa4a4 100644
--- a/t/scripts/hydra-init.t
+++ b/t/scripts/hydra-init.t
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ subtest "hydra-init upgrades user's password hashes from sha1 to sha1 inside Arg
     $janet->setPassword("foobar");
 
     is($alice->password, "8843d7f92416211de9ebb963ff4ce28125932878", "Alices's sha1 is stored in the database");
-    my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(5, ("hydra-init"));
+    my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(30, ("hydra-init"));
     if ($res != 0) {
         is($stdout, "");
         is($stderr, "");
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ subtest "hydra-init upgrades user's password hashes from sha1 to sha1 inside Arg
     };
 
     subtest "Running hydra-init don't break Alice or Janet's passwords" => sub {
-        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(5, ("hydra-init"));
+        my ($res, $stdout, $stderr) = captureStdoutStderr(30, ("hydra-init"));
         is($res, 0, "hydra-init should exit zero");
 
         my $updatedAlice = $db->resultset('Users')->find({ username => "alice" });
diff --git a/t/test.pl b/t/test.pl
index ba7f3781..12284637 100644
--- a/t/test.pl
+++ b/t/test.pl
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ if (defined($ENV{"NIX_BUILD_CORES"})
     print STDERR "test.pl: Defaulting \$YATH_JOB_COUNT to \$NIX_BUILD_CORES (${\$ENV{'NIX_BUILD_CORES'}})\n";
 }
 
-system($^X, find_yath(), '-D', 'test', '--default-search' => './', @ARGV);
+system($^X, find_yath(), '-D', 'test', '--qvf', '--event-timeout', 240, '--default-search' => './', @ARGV);
 my $exit = $?;
 
 # This makes sure it works with prove.