diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 333be836b..e4b388e22 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ update_centos_repo() {
 update_salt_mine() {
     echo "Populating the mine with network.ip_addrs pillar.host.mainint for each host."
     set +e
-    salt \* mine.update
+    salt \* mine.update -b 50
     set -e
 }