diff --git a/src/base/bittorrent/sessionimpl.cpp b/src/base/bittorrent/sessionimpl.cpp
index ff76815b91..b27716dc4a 100644
--- a/src/base/bittorrent/sessionimpl.cpp
+++ b/src/base/bittorrent/sessionimpl.cpp
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ SessionImpl::SessionImpl(QObject *parent)
     , m_announceToAllTiers(BITTORRENT_SESSION_KEY(u"AnnounceToAllTiers"_qs), true)
     , m_asyncIOThreads(BITTORRENT_SESSION_KEY(u"AsyncIOThreadsCount"_qs), 10)
     , m_hashingThreads(BITTORRENT_SESSION_KEY(u"HashingThreadsCount"_qs), 1)
-    , m_filePoolSize(BITTORRENT_SESSION_KEY(u"FilePoolSize"_qs), 5000)
+    , m_filePoolSize(BITTORRENT_SESSION_KEY(u"FilePoolSize"_qs), 500)
     , m_checkingMemUsage(BITTORRENT_SESSION_KEY(u"CheckingMemUsageSize"_qs), 32)
     , m_diskCacheSize(BITTORRENT_SESSION_KEY(u"DiskCacheSize"_qs), -1)
     , m_diskCacheTTL(BITTORRENT_SESSION_KEY(u"DiskCacheTTL"_qs), 60)