diff --git a/sim/firesim-lib/src/main/cc/bridges/tracerv.cc b/sim/firesim-lib/src/main/cc/bridges/tracerv.cc
index 46fb722e..895cd33b 100644
--- a/sim/firesim-lib/src/main/cc/bridges/tracerv.cc
+++ b/sim/firesim-lib/src/main/cc/bridges/tracerv.cc
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ void tracerv_t::serialize(
       // this stores as raw binary. stored as little endian.
       // e.g. to get the same thing as the human readable above,
       // flip all the bytes in each 512-bit line.
-      for (int q = 0; q < 8; q++) {
+      for (int q = 0; q < 1 + max_consider; q++) {
         fwrite(OUTBUF + (i + q), sizeof(uint64_t), 1, tracefile);
       }
     }