diff --git a/docs/how-it-works.md b/docs/how-it-works.md
index b3fa62c..78cc421 100644
--- a/docs/how-it-works.md
+++ b/docs/how-it-works.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ be stored on a different btrfs filesystem, ext4, or even CIFS.
 bees uses a persistent dedupe hash table with a fixed size configured
 by the user.  Any size of hash table can be dedicated to dedupe.  If a
 fast dedupe with low hit rate is desired, bees can use a hash table as
-small as 16MB.
+small as 128KB.
 
 The bees hash table is loaded into RAM at startup and `mlock`ed so it
 will not be swapped out by the kernel (if swap is permitted, performance
diff --git a/docs/running.md b/docs/running.md
index d604891..3ac1be3 100644
--- a/docs/running.md
+++ b/docs/running.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Create a directory for bees state files:
         mkdir -p "$BEESHOME"
 
 Create an empty hash table ([your choice of size](config.md), but it
-must be a multiple of 16MB).  This example creates a 1GB hash table:
+must be a multiple of 128KB).  This example creates a 1GB hash table:
 
         truncate -s 1g "$BEESHOME/beeshash.dat"
         chmod 700 "$BEESHOME/beeshash.dat"
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Configuration
 There are some runtime configurable options using environment variables:
 
 * BEESHOME: Directory containing bees state files:
-	* beeshash.dat  | persistent hash table.  Must be a multiple of 16MB, and must be created before bees starts.
+	* beeshash.dat  | persistent hash table.  Must be a multiple of 128KB, and must be created before bees starts.
 	* beescrawl.dat | state of SEARCH_V2 crawlers.  ASCII text.  bees will create this.
 	* beesstats.txt | statistics and performance counters.  ASCII text.  bees will create this.
 * BEESSTATUS: File containing a snapshot of current bees state:  performance
diff --git a/src/bees.h b/src/bees.h
index da87d88..83231ee 100644
--- a/src/bees.h
+++ b/src/bees.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ const off_t BLOCK_SIZE_MAX_TEMP_FILE = 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
 const off_t BLOCK_SIZE_HASHTAB_BUCKET = BLOCK_SIZE_MMAP;
 
 // Extent size for hash table (since the nocow file attribute does not seem to be working today)
-const off_t BLOCK_SIZE_HASHTAB_EXTENT = 16 * 1024 * 1024;
+const off_t BLOCK_SIZE_HASHTAB_EXTENT = BLOCK_SIZE_MAX_COMPRESSED_EXTENT;
 
 // Bytes per second we want to flush (8GB every two hours)
 const double BEES_FLUSH_RATE = 8.0 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 / 7200.0;