diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 65dd3d7..65fab11 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,9 +9,11 @@ docs/source/_*
 *.db
 .env
 *.session
+*.session-journal
 service_account.json
 .vscode/
 *.log
+*.lock
 
 # Unit test / coverage reports
 reports
diff --git a/cisticola/scraper/base.py b/cisticola/scraper/base.py
index 0144557..fcb9277 100644
--- a/cisticola/scraper/base.py
+++ b/cisticola/scraper/base.py
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ class ScraperController:
 
         # this query is really slow (~2.5 minutes) because of the shuffle. shuffling is so that multiple media archivers could work
         # simultaneously with low risk of collision (at least while the number of unarchived items is very large)
-        posts = session.query(ScraperResult).where(ScraperResult.media_archived == None).order_by(func.random()).limit(10000).all()
+        posts = session.query(ScraperResult).where(ScraperResult.media_archived == None).order_by(func.random()).limit(4000).all()
 
         logger.info(f"Found {len(posts)} posts without media. Archiving now")