diff --git a/nix/configuration/configuration.nix b/nix/configuration/configuration.nix
index 581c3ab..6dcba83 100644
--- a/nix/configuration/configuration.nix
+++ b/nix/configuration/configuration.nix
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ in
     ];
     nix.settings.trusted-users = [ "@wheel" ];
     nix.settings.connect-timeout = 5;
-    nix.settings.min-free = 128000000;
-    nix.settings.max-free = 1000000000;
+    nix.settings.min-free = 5 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024; # Kick off garbage collect if space for nix store is less than 5 GiB
+    nix.settings.max-free = 10 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024; # Run that garbage collect until at least 10 GiB are free.
     nix.settings.fallback = true;
     nix.settings.warn-dirty = false;
     nix.settings.fsync-metadata = true;