diff --git a/src/benchmarks/raxmlng.py b/src/benchmarks/raxmlng.py
index 786b1437f8404eef8daef1130c3668ca60caf10f..05a6ca74d741831231adefa50ae75cdd7b020e8d 100644
--- a/src/benchmarks/raxmlng.py
+++ b/src/benchmarks/raxmlng.py
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ class BenchmarkRaxmlng(Benchmark):
         os.makedirs(raxmlng_builddir, exist_ok=True)
 
         # building raxml-ng
-        run_cmd( ["cmake", ".."], cwd=raxmlng_builddir, output_verbosity=2)
-        run_cmd( ["make"], cwd=raxmlng_builddir, output_verbosity=2)
+        run_cmd( ["cmake", ".."], cwd=raxmlng_builddir)
+        run_cmd( ["make"], cwd=raxmlng_builddir)
 
         # create symlinks
         for exe in ["raxml-ng"]:
diff --git a/src/util.py b/src/util.py
index b095f1a5ad2bf843f763a937a46a4a48c47c55af..56c7159f0e2221fd5e3ad496767c678c8bc1c23c 100644
--- a/src/util.py
+++ b/src/util.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import src.globalvars
 
 
 def run_cmd(cmd,
-            output_verbosity=3,
+            output_verbosity=2,
             capture=False,
             shell=False,
             check=True,