diff --git a/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/pip/IPyPiClient.cs b/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/pip/IPyPiClient.cs
index d1c9abb1f..553a7dc58 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/pip/IPyPiClient.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/pip/IPyPiClient.cs
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ public PyPiClient(IEnvironmentVariableService environmentVariableService, ILogge
             FinalCacheSize = 0,
         };
         this.logger = logger;
-        this.semaphore = new SemaphoreSlim(10, 10);
+        this.semaphore = new SemaphoreSlim(5);
     }
 
     public static HttpClient HttpClient { get; internal set; } = new HttpClient(HttpClientHandler);
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/pip/SimplePypiClient.cs b/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/pip/SimplePypiClient.cs
index 8696761a7..8e58f1544 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/pip/SimplePypiClient.cs
+++ b/src/Microsoft.ComponentDetection.Detectors/pip/SimplePypiClient.cs
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public SimplePyPiClient(IEnvironmentVariableService environmentVariableService,
     {
         this.environmentVariableService = environmentVariableService;
         this.logger = logger;
-        this.semaphore = new SemaphoreSlim(10, 10);
+        this.semaphore = new SemaphoreSlim(5);
     }
 
     public static HttpClient HttpClient { get; internal set; } = new HttpClient(HttpClientHandler);
@@ -287,7 +287,6 @@ public void Dispose()
         this.cacheTelemetry.Dispose();
         this.cachedProjectWheelFiles.Dispose();
         this.cachedSimplePyPiProjects.Dispose();
-        HttpClient.Dispose();
         this.semaphore.Dispose();
     }
 }