diff --git a/etcdctl/ctlv3/command/check.go b/etcdctl/ctlv3/command/check.go
index bd6d491f8ea..c15914117a2 100644
--- a/etcdctl/ctlv3/command/check.go
+++ b/etcdctl/ctlv3/command/check.go
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ var checkDatascaleCfgMap = map[string]checkDatascaleCfg{
 	},
 	"xl": {
 		// xl tries to hit the upper bound aggressively which is 3 versions of 1M objects (3M in total)
-		limit:   30000000,
+		limit:   3000000,
 		kvSize:  1024,
 		clients: 1000,
 	},