diff --git a/benchmarks/db_bench.cc b/benchmarks/db_bench.cc
index f12f214..5e7f944 100644
--- a/benchmarks/db_bench.cc
+++ b/benchmarks/db_bench.cc
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static int FLAGS_reads = -1;
 static int FLAGS_threads = 1;
 
 // Size of each value
-static int FLAGS_value_size = 100;
+static int FLAGS_value_size = 1000;
 
 // Arrange to generate values that shrink to this fraction of
 // their original size after compression
diff --git a/include/leveldb/options.h b/include/leveldb/options.h
index 067947d..2185d86 100644
--- a/include/leveldb/options.h
+++ b/include/leveldb/options.h
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ struct LEVELDB_EXPORT Options {
   size_t block_size = 4 * 1024;
 
   // Threshold of value size that decide whether to separate the key and value
-  size_t kv_sep_size = 1;
+  size_t kv_sep_size = 100;
 
   // Number of keys between restart points for delta encoding of keys.
   // This parameter can be changed dynamically.  Most clients should