diff --git a/conduwuit-example.toml b/conduwuit-example.toml
index 76013b85..7cf9716d 100644
--- a/conduwuit-example.toml
+++ b/conduwuit-example.toml
@@ -481,6 +481,7 @@ allow_profile_lookup_federation_requests = true
 ### Generic database options
 
 # Set this to any float value to multiply conduwuit's in-memory LRU caches with.
+# By default, the caches scale automatically with cpu-core-count.
 # May be useful if you have significant memory to spare to increase performance.
 #
 # This was previously called `conduit_cache_capacity_modifier`
@@ -490,7 +491,7 @@ allow_profile_lookup_federation_requests = true
 
 # Set this to any float value in megabytes for conduwuit to tell the database engine that this much memory is available for database-related caches.
 # May be useful if you have significant memory to spare to increase performance.
-# Defaults to 256.0
+# Defaults to 128.0 + (64.0 * CPU core count).
 #db_cache_capacity_mb = 256.0
 
 
diff --git a/src/core/config/mod.rs b/src/core/config/mod.rs
index 547196e4..8f857505 100644
--- a/src/core/config/mod.rs
+++ b/src/core/config/mod.rs
@@ -887,29 +887,29 @@ fn default_database_backups_to_keep() -> i16 { 1 }
 
 fn default_database_backend() -> String { "rocksdb".to_owned() }
 
-fn default_db_cache_capacity_mb() -> f64 { 256.0 }
+fn default_db_cache_capacity_mb() -> f64 { 128.0 + (64.0 * (crate::utils::available_parallelism() as f64)) }
 
-fn default_pdu_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 150_000 }
+fn default_pdu_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 + (10_000 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32) }
 
 fn default_cache_capacity_modifier() -> f64 { 1.0 }
 
-fn default_auth_chain_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 }
+fn default_auth_chain_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 + (10_000 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32) }
 
-fn default_shorteventid_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 500_000 }
+fn default_shorteventid_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 + (50_000 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32) }
 
-fn default_eventidshort_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 }
+fn default_eventidshort_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 + (25_000 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32) }
 
-fn default_shortstatekey_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 }
+fn default_shortstatekey_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 + (10_000 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32) }
 
-fn default_statekeyshort_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 }
+fn default_statekeyshort_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100_000 + (10_000 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32) }
 
-fn default_server_visibility_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100 }
+fn default_server_visibility_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 500 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32 }
 
-fn default_user_visibility_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100 }
+fn default_user_visibility_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 1000 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32 }
 
-fn default_stateinfo_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100 }
+fn default_stateinfo_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 1000 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32 }
 
-fn default_roomid_spacehierarchy_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 100 }
+fn default_roomid_spacehierarchy_cache_capacity() -> u32 { 1000 * crate::utils::available_parallelism() as u32 }
 
 fn default_dns_cache_entries() -> u32 { 32768 }