diff --git a/content/developer/reference/cli.rst b/content/developer/reference/cli.rst
index 6f9b1b8eda..a201161689 100644
--- a/content/developer/reference/cli.rst
+++ b/content/developer/reference/cli.rst
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ Multiprocessing
         Number of requests a worker will process before being recycled and
         restarted.
 
-        Defaults to *8196*.
+        Defaults to *65536*.
 
     .. option:: --limit-memory-soft <limit>