diff --git a/src/kbmod_wf/multi_night_workflow.py b/src/kbmod_wf/multi_night_workflow.py
index bf36b1d6..330a9dae 100644
--- a/src/kbmod_wf/multi_night_workflow.py
+++ b/src/kbmod_wf/multi_night_workflow.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import toml
 import parsl
 from parsl import python_app, File
+from parsl.monitoring.errors import MonitoringHubStartError
 import parsl.executors
 
 from kbmod_wf.utilities import (
@@ -153,5 +154,11 @@ def workflow_runner(env=None, runtime_config={}):
     if args.runtime_config is not None and os.path.exists(args.runtime_config):
         with open(args.runtime_config, "r") as toml_runtime_config:
             runtime_config = toml.load(toml_runtime_config)
+    max_tries = 5
+    for i in range(max_tries):
+        try:
+            workflow_runner(env=args.env, runtime_config=runtime_config)
+            break
+        except MonitoringHubStartError as msg:
+            print(f"Got MonitoringHubStartError during attempt {i} of {max_tries}. Will try again...")
 
-    workflow_runner(env=args.env, runtime_config=runtime_config)
diff --git a/src/kbmod_wf/resource_configs/usdf_configuration.py b/src/kbmod_wf/resource_configs/usdf_configuration.py
index dcbf6b28..adc7c228 100644
--- a/src/kbmod_wf/resource_configs/usdf_configuration.py
+++ b/src/kbmod_wf/resource_configs/usdf_configuration.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 max_ram_dict = {"ada":350, # 351 Gb total, with 5 GPUs total on the one node, leaves 70 Gb per task
 		"ampere":952, # 896 per each of the two nodes we can access, each with 4 GPUs
-		"roma":140, # 240 to 140
+		"roma":140, # 240 to 140; to 240 5/20/2025 COC; RAM fixes, back to 140 5/23/2025 COC
 		"milano":140 # 240 to 140
 }
 max_block_dict = {"ada":1, "ampere":2}
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def usdf_resource_config():
                     partition=cpu_partition, # or ada?; see resource notes at top
                     account=account_name,
                     min_blocks=0,
-                    max_blocks=20, # 12 to 20 4/16/2025 COC
+                    max_blocks=10, # 12 to 20 4/16/2025 COC; 20 to 10 while debugging RAM issues 5/20/2025 COC
                     init_blocks=0,
                     parallelism=1,
                     nodes_per_block=1,