diff --git a/env.example b/env.example
index ef52bd53..f759ea92 100644
--- a/env.example
+++ b/env.example
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ EMBEDDING_BINDING_API_KEY=your_api_key
 # If the embedding service is deployed within the same Docker stack, use host.docker.internal instead of localhost
 EMBEDDING_BINDING_HOST=http://localhost:11434
 ### Num of chunks send to Embedding in single request
-# EMBEDDING_BATCH_NUM=32
+# EMBEDDING_BATCH_NUM=10
 ### Max concurrency requests for Embedding
 # EMBEDDING_FUNC_MAX_ASYNC=16
 ### Maximum tokens sent to Embedding for each chunk (no longer in use?)
diff --git a/lightrag/lightrag.py b/lightrag/lightrag.py
index cbb5e2a8..1f61a42e 100644
--- a/lightrag/lightrag.py
+++ b/lightrag/lightrag.py
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ class LightRAG:
     embedding_func: EmbeddingFunc | None = field(default=None)
     """Function for computing text embeddings. Must be set before use."""
 
-    embedding_batch_num: int = field(default=int(os.getenv("EMBEDDING_BATCH_NUM", 32)))
+    embedding_batch_num: int = field(default=int(os.getenv("EMBEDDING_BATCH_NUM", 10)))
     """Batch size for embedding computations."""
 
     embedding_func_max_async: int = field(