diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/monitor/DiskSpaceMonitor.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/monitor/DiskSpaceMonitor.java
index 08200fc93..2e8e8e1fa 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/monitor/DiskSpaceMonitor.java
+++ b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/monitor/DiskSpaceMonitor.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public class DiskSpaceMonitor implements ApplicationListener<ApplicationEvent> {
     private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(DiskSpaceMonitor.class.getName());
 
     protected List<String> monitorPaths = new ArrayList<String>();
-    protected long pauseThresholdMiB = 500;
+    protected long pauseThresholdMiB = 8192;
     protected CrawlController controller;
     protected ConfigPathConfigurer configPathConfigurer;
     protected boolean monitorConfigPaths = true;
diff --git a/engine/src/main/resources/org/archive/crawler/restlet/profile-crawler-beans.cxml b/engine/src/main/resources/org/archive/crawler/restlet/profile-crawler-beans.cxml
index b25ced34a..39defa3f0 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/resources/org/archive/crawler/restlet/profile-crawler-beans.cxml
+++ b/engine/src/main/resources/org/archive/crawler/restlet/profile-crawler-beans.cxml
@@ -624,10 +624,13 @@ http://example.example/example
  -->
  
  <!-- DISK SPACE MONITOR: 
-      Pauses the crawl if disk space at monitored paths falls below minimum threshold -->
+      Pauses the crawl if disk space at monitored paths falls below minimum threshold
+      Note: If there's less than 5 GiB free for state directory BDB will throw
+      an error which the crawl job will likely not be to fully recover from.
+      -->
  <!-- 
  <bean id="diskSpaceMonitor" class="org.archive.crawler.monitor.DiskSpaceMonitor">
-   <property name="pauseThresholdMiB" value="500" />
+   <property name="pauseThresholdMiB" value="8192" />
    <property name="monitorConfigPaths" value="true" />
    <property name="monitorPaths">
      <list>