diff --git a/examples/PerturbedBox_2D/perturbedPlane.yml b/examples/PerturbedBox_2D/perturbedPlane.yml
index b92e29f620edc6f72399111fbe73ba6bd1485e92..a0c6b6d9dbc7a677002dbce5abc6e5d268b56e97 100644
--- a/examples/PerturbedBox_2D/perturbedPlane.yml
+++ b/examples/PerturbedBox_2D/perturbedPlane.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ InternalUnitSystem:
 # Parameters governing the time integration
 TimeIntegration:
   time_begin: 0.    # The starting time of the simulation (in internal units).
-  time_end:   10.   # The end time of the simulation (in internal units).
+  time_end:   1000. # The end time of the simulation (in internal units).
   dt_min:     1e-6  # The minimal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
   dt_max:     1e-2  # The maximal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
 
@@ -21,12 +21,11 @@ Snapshots:
 
 # Parameters governing the conserved quantities statistics
 Statistics:
-  delta_time:          1e-3 # Time between statistics output
+  delta_time:          1.   # Time between statistics output
 
 # Parameters for the hydrodynamics scheme
 SPH:
   resolution_eta:        1.2348   # Target smoothing length in units of the mean inter-particle separation (1.2348 == 48Ngbs with the cubic spline kernel).
-  delta_neighbours:      0.1      # The tolerance for the targetted number of neighbours.
   CFL_condition:         0.1      # Courant-Friedrich-Levy condition for time integration.
   
 # Parameters related to the initial conditions
diff --git a/examples/PerturbedBox_3D/perturbedBox.yml b/examples/PerturbedBox_3D/perturbedBox.yml
index 71c8dece4df5505eb44511ee92291feedd7ffab1..3148510979d0e349c0d6242bf11e1a0db94f9e1f 100644
--- a/examples/PerturbedBox_3D/perturbedBox.yml
+++ b/examples/PerturbedBox_3D/perturbedBox.yml
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ InternalUnitSystem:
 # Parameters governing the time integration
 TimeIntegration:
   time_begin: 0.    # The starting time of the simulation (in internal units).
-  time_end:   1.    # The end time of the simulation (in internal units).
+  time_end:   1000  # The end time of the simulation (in internal units).
   dt_min:     1e-6  # The minimal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
-  dt_max:     1e-3  # The maximal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
+  dt_max:     1e-2  # The maximal time-step size of the simulation (in internal units).
 
 # Parameters governing the snapshots
 Snapshots:
@@ -21,12 +21,11 @@ Snapshots:
 
 # Parameters governing the conserved quantities statistics
 Statistics:
-  delta_time:          1e-3 # Time between statistics output
+  delta_time:          1. # Time between statistics output
 
 # Parameters for the hydrodynamics scheme
 SPH:
   resolution_eta:        1.2348   # Target smoothing length in units of the mean inter-particle separation (1.2348 == 48Ngbs with the cubic spline kernel).
-  delta_neighbours:      0.1      # The tolerance for the targetted number of neighbours.
   CFL_condition:         0.1      # Courant-Friedrich-Levy condition for time integration.
   
 # Parameters related to the initial conditions