diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
index ddc56c8f9f..74cf933b72 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-ptest.bb
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE:virtclass-mcextend-lttng-tools = "1524288"
 # ptests need more memory than standard to avoid the OOM killer
 QB_MEM = "-m 1024"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-lttng-tools = "-m 4096"
+QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-python3 = "-m 2048"
 QB_MEM:virtclass-mcextend-python3-cryptography = "-m 4096"
 
 TEST_SUITES = "ping ssh parselogs ptest"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/run-ptest
index 05396e91ab..ee1130284b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/run-ptest
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/run-ptest
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=nonlocal python3 -m test -v | sed -u -e '/\.\.\. ok/ s/^/PASS: /g' -r -e '/\.\.\. (ERROR|FAIL)/ s/^/FAIL: /g' -e '/\.\.\. skipped/ s/^/SKIP: /g' -e 's/ \.\.\. ok//g' -e 's/ \.\.\. ERROR//g' -e 's/ \.\.\. FAIL//g' -e 's/ \.\.\. skipped//g'
+SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=nonlocal python3 -m test -v -j 4 | sed -u -e '/\.\.\. ok/ s/^/PASS: /g' -r -e '/\.\.\. (ERROR|FAIL)/ s/^/FAIL: /g' -e '/\.\.\. skipped/ s/^/SKIP: /g' -e 's/ \.\.\. ok//g' -e 's/ \.\.\. ERROR//g' -e 's/ \.\.\. FAIL//g' -e 's/ \.\.\. skipped//g'
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.11.4.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.11.4.bb
index 86ecc4e297..2d7b1bac2c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.11.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.11.4.bb
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ FILES:${PN}-man = "${datadir}/man"
 # See https://bugs.python.org/issue18748 and https://bugs.python.org/issue37395
 RDEPENDS:libpython3:append:libc-glibc = " libgcc"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ctypes:append:libc-glibc = " ${MLPREFIX}ldconfig"
-RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = "${PN}-modules ${PN}-tests ${PN}-dev ${PN}-cgitb ${PN}-zipapp unzip bzip2 libgcc tzdata coreutils sed"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest = "${PN}-modules ${PN}-tests ${PN}-dev ${PN}-cgitb ${PN}-zipapp unzip bzip2 libgcc tzdata coreutils sed gcc g++ binutils"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest:append:libc-glibc = " locale-base-fr-fr locale-base-en-us locale-base-tr-tr locale-base-de-de"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-tkinter += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'tk', '${MLPREFIX}tk ${MLPREFIX}tk-lib', '', d)}"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-idle += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'tk', '${PN}-tkinter ${MLPREFIX}tcl', '', d)}"