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test: tune down parallelism for some flaky tests #44090

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  1. test: tune down parallelism for some flaky tests

    These tests seem to timeout quite often. I don't know why, but one
    possible reason is that they are starting a lot of threads. It seems
    that tests in `test/parallel` are assumed to only start one thread each,
    so having 11 threads running at a time feels like a lot.
    
    It also seems that these tests fail in a correlated fashion: take a look
    at [this reliability report][]. The failures all occur on the same build
    machines on the same PRs. This suggests to me some sort of CPU
    contention.
    
    [this reliability report]: nodejs/reliability#334
    
    On my Linux machine decreasing the parallelism & iterations here reduce
    the `user` time from ~11.5 seconds to ~2 seconds, depending on the test.
    I have seen these tests take 30-60 seconds on CI (Alpine in particular).
    
    I went back to the diffs that introduced that introduced these changes
    and verified that they failed at least 90% of the time with the reduced
    iteration count, which feels sufficient.
    
    Refs: nodejs#43499
    Refs: nodejs#43084
    kvakil committed Aug 2, 2022
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