diff --git a/src/engine.c b/src/engine.c
index b020980a5c0b4990a5c3c262fa7982f7353026cf..4b3d356899e543813860a0c584af67e911946d75 100644
--- a/src/engine.c
+++ b/src/engine.c
@@ -5507,7 +5507,7 @@ void engine_config(int restart, struct engine *e, struct swift_params *params,
 
   /* Estimated number of links per tasks */
   e->links_per_tasks =
-      parser_get_opt_param_int(params, "Scheduler:links_per_tasks", 10);
+      parser_get_opt_param_int(params, "Scheduler:links_per_tasks", 15);
 
   /* Init the scheduler. */
   scheduler_init(&e->sched, e->s, maxtasks, nr_queues,