diff --git a/lib/libc/db/man/hash.3 b/lib/libc/db/man/hash.3
index 67240421019..133885d841c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/db/man/hash.3
+++ b/lib/libc/db/man/hash.3
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ The
 element
 defines the
 .Nm
-table bucket size, and is, by default, 256 bytes.
+table bucket size, and is, by default, 4096 bytes.
 It may be preferable to increase the page size for disk-resident tables
 and tables with large data items.
 .It Va ffactor