diff --git a/src/settings_pack.cpp b/src/settings_pack.cpp
index 8f816696d..55ce95210 100644
--- a/src/settings_pack.cpp
+++ b/src/settings_pack.cpp
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ namespace libtorrent
 		SET(alert_queue_size, 1000, &session_impl::update_alert_queue_size),
 		SET(max_metadata_size, 3 * 1024 * 10240, 0),
 		DEPRECATED_SET(hashing_threads, 1, 0),
-		SET(checking_mem_usage, 256, 0),
+		SET(checking_mem_usage, 1024, 0),
 		SET(predictive_piece_announce, 0, 0),
 		SET(aio_threads, 4, &session_impl::update_disk_threads),
 		SET(aio_max, 300, 0),