diff --git a/k8s/bootstrap/phase3-forgejo/forgejo-values.yaml b/k8s/bootstrap/phase3-forgejo/forgejo-values.yaml
index 2bcf109..4b05d85 100644
--- a/k8s/bootstrap/phase3-forgejo/forgejo-values.yaml
+++ b/k8s/bootstrap/phase3-forgejo/forgejo-values.yaml
@@ -165,15 +165,15 @@ ingress:
 # little scheduling weight during contention. limits.cpu rises to 3000m
 # because diff computation is bursty and needs room to run without throttling.
 #
-# Caution: this pod runs on talos-cp-3, a control-plane node. 3000m is 25% of
-# that node's 11950m allocatable CPU. If Gitea sustains near this limit, move
-# the workload off the control plane rather than raising the limit again.
+# Caution: this pod runs on talos-cp-3, a control-plane node. If Gitea
+# throttles again at 1000m, move the workload off the control plane rather
+# than raising the limit.
 resources:
   requests:
-    cpu: 750m
+    cpu: 200m
     memory: 768Mi
   limits:
-    cpu: 3000m
+    cpu: 1000m
     memory: 2Gi
 
 # Tolerations for control-plane