diff --git a/conduwuit-example.toml b/conduwuit-example.toml
index a0f05ebb..aee29f92 100644
--- a/conduwuit-example.toml
+++ b/conduwuit-example.toml
@@ -1341,7 +1341,8 @@
 # Sets the number of worker threads in the frontend-pool of the database.
 # This number should reflect the I/O capabilities of the system,
 # specifically the queue-depth or the number of simultaneous requests in
-# flight. Defaults to 32 or number of CPU cores, whichever is greater.
+# flight. Defaults to 32 or four times the number of CPU cores, whichever
+# is greater.
 #
 #db_pool_workers = 32
 
diff --git a/src/core/config/mod.rs b/src/core/config/mod.rs
index edbb7c26..cb8f3b87 100644
--- a/src/core/config/mod.rs
+++ b/src/core/config/mod.rs
@@ -1503,7 +1503,8 @@ pub struct Config {
 	/// Sets the number of worker threads in the frontend-pool of the database.
 	/// This number should reflect the I/O capabilities of the system,
 	/// specifically the queue-depth or the number of simultaneous requests in
-	/// flight. Defaults to 32 or number of CPU cores, whichever is greater.
+	/// flight. Defaults to 32 or four times the number of CPU cores, whichever
+	/// is greater.
 	/// default: 32
 	#[serde(default = "default_db_pool_workers")]
 	pub db_pool_workers: usize,
@@ -2280,6 +2281,6 @@ fn parallelism_scaled(val: usize) -> usize { val.saturating_mul(sys::available_p
 
 fn default_trusted_server_batch_size() -> usize { 256 }
 
-fn default_db_pool_workers() -> usize { sys::available_parallelism().max(32) }
+fn default_db_pool_workers() -> usize { sys::available_parallelism().saturating_mul(4).max(32) }
 
 fn default_db_pool_queue_size() -> usize { sys::available_parallelism().saturating_mul(8).max(256) }