diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 28cfe71c0..6708d7e44 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Jan 31 10:04:58 2001  Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
+
+	* shared.cc (shared_info::initialize): Reduce size of heap.
+
 Wed Jan 31 13:22:00 2001  Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* include/sys/resource.h: Fix typo.
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/shared.cc b/winsup/cygwin/shared.cc
index 3c99e2518..60a7f6d81 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/shared.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/shared.cc
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ shared_info::initialize ()
   /* FIXME: We should not be restricted to a fixed size heap no matter
   what the fixed size is. */
 
-  heap_chunk_in_mb = reg.get_int ("heap_chunk_in_mb", 1024);
+  heap_chunk_in_mb = reg.get_int ("heap_chunk_in_mb", 256);
   if (heap_chunk_in_mb < 4)
     {
       heap_chunk_in_mb = 4;