diff --git a/Projects/UOContent/Network/AutoDenylist/AutoDenylistConfiguration.cs b/Projects/UOContent/Network/AutoDenylist/AutoDenylistConfiguration.cs
index fd29bb0c2..3af1a300b 100644
--- a/Projects/UOContent/Network/AutoDenylist/AutoDenylistConfiguration.cs
+++ b/Projects/UOContent/Network/AutoDenylist/AutoDenylistConfiguration.cs
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ public record AutoDenylistSettings
     /// stops it becoming the exhaustion it prevents. At the cap new addresses are not tracked, but are still
     /// disconnected by whichever gate detected them.
     /// </summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// A <c>Dictionary</c> capacity, not a round number. Growing from empty it steps 36,353 → 75,431 →
+    /// 156,437, so this fills one exactly instead of stranding slots: 65,536 sat just past a resize and left
+    /// 9,895 of them (52 bytes each) unusable. Costs ~8 MB. Raising it is paid on the loop, where a full
+    /// sweep runs ~2 ms here, ~6 ms at 324,449 and ~26 ms at 968,897.
+    /// </remarks>
     [JsonPropertyName("maxEntries")]
-    public int MaxEntries { get; set; } = 65536;
+    public int MaxEntries { get; set; } = 156_437;
 }