diff --git a/clients/besu/Dockerfile b/clients/besu/Dockerfile
index e3529392f4..6105ae3783 100644
--- a/clients/besu/Dockerfile
+++ b/clients/besu/Dockerfile
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ RUN chmod +x /hive-bin/enode.sh
 
 RUN ./bin/besu --version > /version.txt
 
-# Export the usual networking ports to allow outside access to the node
+# Expose JVM debugger port.
+EXPOSE 5005
+
+# Expose the usual networking ports to allow outside access to the node.
 EXPOSE 8545 8546 8551 30303 30303/udp
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/besu/bin/besu-hive.sh"]
diff --git a/clients/besu/besu.sh b/clients/besu/besu.sh
index 4b66c73dc8..f5a0a28811 100644
--- a/clients/besu/besu.sh
+++ b/clients/besu/besu.sh
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ fi
 if [ "$HIVE_MINER_EXTRA" != "" ]; then
     FLAGS="$FLAGS --miner-extra-data=$HIVE_MINER_EXTRA"
 fi
-FLAGS="$FLAGS --min-gas-price=16 --tx-pool-price-bump=0"
+FLAGS="$FLAGS --min-gas-price=1 --tx-pool-price-bump=0 --tx-pool-limit-by-account-percentage=1"
 
 # Configure peer-to-peer networking.
 if [ "$HIVE_BOOTNODE" != "" ]; then