diff --git a/man/man4/zfs.4 b/man/man4/zfs.4
index b6fd64a58446..75b59b72f0a2 100644
--- a/man/man4/zfs.4
+++ b/man/man4/zfs.4
@@ -1626,7 +1626,7 @@ prefetched during a pool traversal, like
 .Nm zfs Cm send
 or other data crawling operations.
 .
-.It Sy zfs_per_txg_dirty_frees_percent Ns = Ns Sy 5 Ns % Pq ulong
+.It Sy zfs_per_txg_dirty_frees_percent Ns = Ns Sy 30 Ns % Pq ulong
 Control percentage of dirtied indirect blocks from frees allowed into one TXG.
 After this threshold is crossed, additional frees will wait until the next TXG.
 .Sy 0 No disables this throttle.
diff --git a/module/zfs/dmu.c b/module/zfs/dmu.c
index b29d82fd793e..3c7e0099fc11 100644
--- a/module/zfs/dmu.c
+++ b/module/zfs/dmu.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ int zfs_nopwrite_enabled = 1;
  * will wait until the next TXG.
  * A value of zero will disable this throttle.
  */
-unsigned long zfs_per_txg_dirty_frees_percent = 5;
+static unsigned long zfs_per_txg_dirty_frees_percent = 30;
 
 /*
  * Enable/disable forcing txg sync when dirty in dmu_offset_next.