diff --git a/egs/chime5/s5/cmd.sh b/egs/chime5/s5/cmd.sh
index 0b54a2acda4..9702501f1a7 100644
--- a/egs/chime5/s5/cmd.sh
+++ b/egs/chime5/s5/cmd.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
 # conf/queue.conf in http://kaldi-asr.org/doc/queue.html for more information,
 # or search for the string 'default_config' in utils/queue.pl or utils/slurm.pl.
 
-export train_cmd="retry.pl queue.pl --mem 120G"
+export train_cmd="retry.pl queue.pl --mem 2G"
 export decode_cmd="queue.pl --mem 4G"
 
diff --git a/egs/chime5/s5/run.sh b/egs/chime5/s5/run.sh
index 8e4072bf9f4..e1a6f789d13 100755
--- a/egs/chime5/s5/run.sh
+++ b/egs/chime5/s5/run.sh
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ if [ $stage -le 4 ]; then
   dereverb_dir=${PWD}/wav/wpe/
   for dset in dev eval; do
     for mictype in u01 u02 u03 u04 u05 u06; do
-      local/run_wpe.sh --cmd "$train_cmd" \
+      local/run_wpe.sh --cmd "$train_cmd --mem 120G" \
 			      ${audio_dir}/${dset} \
 			      ${dereverb_dir}/${dset} \
 			      ${mictype}