diff --git a/.github/workflows/macos-smoke-test.yml b/.github/workflows/macos-smoke-test.yml
index 42b05ecd5ac06..a183033c9adde 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/macos-smoke-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/macos-smoke-test.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   macos-m1-smoke-test:
     runs-on: macos-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 20
+    timeout-minutes: 30
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -37,15 +37,14 @@ jobs:
       - name: Verify installation
         run: |
           python -c "import vllm; print(f'vLLM version: {vllm.__version__}')"
-          python -c "import torch; print(f'PyTorch: {torch.__version__}')"
 
       - name: Smoke test vllm serve
-        timeout-minutes: 10
         run: |
           # Start server in background
           vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
-            --max-model-len=2048 \
+            --max-model-len=2K \
             --load-format=dummy \
+            --hf-overrides '{"num_hidden_layers": 2}' \
             --enforce-eager \
             --port 8000 &