diff --git a/yacy.init b/yacy.init
index eae48cf34..8a06c8a4a 100644
--- a/yacy.init
+++ b/yacy.init
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ filterOutStopwordsFromTopwords=true
 50_localcrawl_isPaused=false
 61_globalcrawltrigger_idlesleep=10000
 61_globalcrawltrigger_busysleep=500
-61_globalcrawltrigger_memprereq=4194304
+61_globalcrawltrigger_memprereq=2097152
 61_globalcrawltrigger_isPaused=false
 62_remotetriggeredcrawl_idlesleep=10000
 62_remotetriggeredcrawl_busysleep=1000
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ filterOutStopwordsFromTopwords=true
 70_cachemanager_memprereq=1048576
 80_indexing_idlesleep=1000
 80_indexing_busysleep=125
-80_indexing_memprereq=4194304
+80_indexing_memprereq=6291456
 82_crawlstack_idlesleep=5000
 82_crawlstack_busysleep=10
 82_crawlstack_memprereq=1048576