diff --git a/src/core/config/mod.rs b/src/core/config/mod.rs
index afb4167d..14e8fa29 100644
--- a/src/core/config/mod.rs
+++ b/src/core/config/mod.rs
@@ -1155,7 +1155,7 @@ pub struct Config {
 	/// 3 to 5 = Statistics with possible performance impact.
 	/// 6 = All statistics.
 	///
-	/// default: 1
+	/// default: 3
 	#[serde(default = "default_rocksdb_stats_level")]
 	pub rocksdb_stats_level: u8,
 
@@ -2199,7 +2199,7 @@ fn default_typing_client_timeout_max_s() -> u64 { 45 }
 
 fn default_rocksdb_recovery_mode() -> u8 { 1 }
 
-fn default_rocksdb_log_level() -> String { "error".to_owned() }
+fn default_rocksdb_log_level() -> String { "info".to_owned() }
 
 fn default_rocksdb_log_time_to_roll() -> usize { 0 }
 
@@ -2231,7 +2231,7 @@ fn default_rocksdb_compression_level() -> i32 { 32767 }
 #[allow(clippy::doc_markdown)]
 fn default_rocksdb_bottommost_compression_level() -> i32 { 32767 }
 
-fn default_rocksdb_stats_level() -> u8 { 1 }
+fn default_rocksdb_stats_level() -> u8 { 3 }
 
 // I know, it's a great name
 #[must_use]
@@ -2286,14 +2286,13 @@ fn default_admin_log_capture() -> String {
 fn default_admin_room_tag() -> String { "m.server_notice".to_owned() }
 
 #[allow(clippy::as_conversions, clippy::cast_precision_loss)]
-fn parallelism_scaled_f64(val: f64) -> f64 { val * (sys::available_parallelism() as f64) }
+pub fn parallelism_scaled_f64(val: f64) -> f64 { val * (sys::available_parallelism() as f64) }
 
-fn parallelism_scaled_u32(val: u32) -> u32 {
-	let val = val.try_into().expect("failed to cast u32 to usize");
-	parallelism_scaled(val).try_into().unwrap_or(u32::MAX)
-}
+pub fn parallelism_scaled_u32(val: u32) -> u32 { val.saturating_mul(sys::available_parallelism() as u32) }
 
-fn parallelism_scaled(val: usize) -> usize { val.saturating_mul(sys::available_parallelism()) }
+pub fn parallelism_scaled_i32(val: i32) -> i32 { val.saturating_mul(sys::available_parallelism() as i32) }
+
+pub fn parallelism_scaled(val: usize) -> usize { val.saturating_mul(sys::available_parallelism()) }
 
 fn default_trusted_server_batch_size() -> usize { 256 }
 
diff --git a/src/database/engine/db_opts.rs b/src/database/engine/db_opts.rs
index 18cec742..4a717b4d 100644
--- a/src/database/engine/db_opts.rs
+++ b/src/database/engine/db_opts.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::{cmp, convert::TryFrom};
 
 use conduwuit::{Config, Result, utils};
 use rocksdb::{Cache, DBRecoveryMode, Env, LogLevel, Options, statistics::StatsLevel};
-
+use conduwuit::config::{parallelism_scaled_i32, parallelism_scaled_u32};
 use super::{cf_opts::cache_size_f64, logger::handle as handle_log};
 
 /// Create database-wide options suitable for opening the database. This also
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ pub(crate) fn db_options(config: &Config, env: &Env, row_cache: &Cache) -> Resul
 	set_logging_defaults(&mut opts, config);
 
 	// Processing
-	opts.set_max_background_jobs(num_threads::<i32>(config)?);
-	opts.set_max_subcompactions(num_threads::<u32>(config)?);
+	opts.set_max_background_jobs(parallelism_scaled_i32(1));
+	opts.set_max_subcompactions(parallelism_scaled_u32(1));
 	opts.set_avoid_unnecessary_blocking_io(true);
 	opts.set_max_file_opening_threads(0);
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ fn set_logging_defaults(opts: &mut Options, config: &Config) {
 }
 
 fn num_threads<T: TryFrom<usize>>(config: &Config) -> Result<T> {
-	const MIN_PARALLELISM: usize = 2;
+	const MIN_PARALLELISM: usize = 4;
 
 	let requested = if config.rocksdb_parallelism_threads != 0 {
 		config.rocksdb_parallelism_threads