diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Text.Json/tests/System.Text.Json.Tests/Serialization/Stream.WriteTests.cs b/src/libraries/System.Text.Json/tests/System.Text.Json.Tests/Serialization/Stream.WriteTests.cs
index c3734c58f6927a..b4099afa9d9a58 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Text.Json/tests/System.Text.Json.Tests/Serialization/Stream.WriteTests.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Text.Json/tests/System.Text.Json.Tests/Serialization/Stream.WriteTests.cs
@@ -330,8 +330,7 @@ public async Task VeryLargeJsonFileTest(int payloadSize, bool ignoreNull, bool w
         [InlineData(2, true, false)]
         [InlineData(2, false, false)]
         [InlineData(4, false, false)]
-        [InlineData(8, false, false)]
-        [InlineData(16, false, false)] // This results a reader\writer depth of 324 which currently works on all test platforms.
+        [InlineData(8, false, false)] // Greater depths have caused failures on some test machine configurations due to memory constraints
         public async Task DeepNestedJsonFileTest(int depthFactor, bool ignoreNull, bool writeIndented)
         {
             const int ListLength = 10;