diff --git a/examples/miscellaneous/plot_kernel_ridge_regression.py b/examples/miscellaneous/plot_kernel_ridge_regression.py
index 29a6f1ca6a0d6..06244451a102d 100644
--- a/examples/miscellaneous/plot_kernel_ridge_regression.py
+++ b/examples/miscellaneous/plot_kernel_ridge_regression.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 from sklearn.kernel_ridge import KernelRidge
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 
-rng = np.random.RandomState(0)
+rng = np.random.RandomState(42)
 
 # #############################################################################
 # Generate sample data
@@ -128,10 +128,10 @@
 X = 5 * rng.rand(10000, 1)
 y = np.sin(X).ravel()
 y[::5] += 3 * (0.5 - rng.rand(X.shape[0] // 5))
-sizes = np.logspace(1, 4, 7).astype(int)
+sizes = np.logspace(1, 3.8, 7).astype(int)
 for name, estimator in {
-    "KRR": KernelRidge(kernel="rbf", alpha=0.1, gamma=10),
-    "SVR": SVR(kernel="rbf", C=1e1, gamma=10),
+    "KRR": KernelRidge(kernel="rbf", alpha=0.01, gamma=10),
+    "SVR": SVR(kernel="rbf", C=1e2, gamma=10),
 }.items():
     train_time = []
     test_time = []