diff --git a/sbin/geom/class/stripe/gstripe.8 b/sbin/geom/class/stripe/gstripe.8
index df1b84e2c40d..bb9eed4dcf69 100644
--- a/sbin/geom/class/stripe/gstripe.8
+++ b/sbin/geom/class/stripe/gstripe.8
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ GEOM class.
 This can be set to a number between 0 and 3 inclusive.
 If set to 0 minimal debug information is printed, and if set to 3 the
 maximum amount of debug information in printed.
-.It Va kern.geom.stripe.fast : No 1
+.It Va kern.geom.stripe.fast : No 0
 If set to a non-zero value enable
 .Dq "fast mode"
 instead of the normal
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ If enough memory cannot be allocated,
 .Nm STRIPE
 will fall back to
 .Dq "economic mode" .
-.It Va kern.geom.stripe.maxmem : No 1310720
+.It Va kern.geom.stripe.maxmem : No 13107200
 Maximum amount of memory that can be consumed by
 .Dq "fast mode"
 (in bytes).
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ The following example shows how to set up a striped device from four disks with
 create a file system on it,
 and mount it:
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
-gstripe label -v -s 4096 data /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 /dev/da3
+gstripe label -v -s 131072 data /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 /dev/da3
 newfs /dev/stripe/data
 mount /dev/stripe/data /mnt
 [...]
diff --git a/sys/geom/stripe/g_stripe.c b/sys/geom/stripe/g_stripe.c
index 647316ba2817..57438e32d0f4 100644
--- a/sys/geom/stripe/g_stripe.c
+++ b/sys/geom/stripe/g_stripe.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static u_int g_stripe_debug = 0;
 TUNABLE_INT("kern.geom.stripe.debug", &g_stripe_debug);
 SYSCTL_UINT(_kern_geom_stripe, OID_AUTO, debug, CTLFLAG_RW, &g_stripe_debug, 0,
     "Debug level");
-static int g_stripe_fast = 1;
+static int g_stripe_fast = 0;
 TUNABLE_INT("kern.geom.stripe.fast", &g_stripe_fast);
 static int
 g_sysctl_stripe_fast(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ g_sysctl_stripe_fast(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
 }
 SYSCTL_PROC(_kern_geom_stripe, OID_AUTO, fast, CTLTYPE_INT | CTLFLAG_RW,
     NULL, 0, g_sysctl_stripe_fast, "I", "Fast, but memory-consuming, mode");
-static u_int g_stripe_maxmem = MAX_IO_SIZE * 50;
+static u_int g_stripe_maxmem = MAX_IO_SIZE * 100;
 TUNABLE_INT("kern.geom.stripe.maxmem", &g_stripe_maxmem);
 SYSCTL_UINT(_kern_geom_stripe, OID_AUTO, maxmem, CTLFLAG_RD, &g_stripe_maxmem,
     0, "Maximum memory that can be allocated in \"fast\" mode (in bytes)");