diff --git a/man/man4/zfs.4 b/man/man4/zfs.4
index fcb97d716d..b317941bbd 100644
--- a/man/man4/zfs.4
+++ b/man/man4/zfs.4
@@ -1651,7 +1651,7 @@ 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 0832fbcfdf..c67a36470e 100644
--- a/module/zfs/dmu.c
+++ b/module/zfs/dmu.c
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ 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;
+unsigned long zfs_per_txg_dirty_frees_percent = 30;
 
 /*
  * Enable/disable forcing txg sync when dirty checking for holes with lseek().