diff --git a/examples/common.h b/examples/common.h
index cbbc2dfab16de..0470368d58acb 100644
--- a/examples/common.h
+++ b/examples/common.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ struct gpt_params {
     int32_t repeat_last_n = 64;   // last n tokens to penalize
     int32_t n_parts       = -1;   // amount of model parts (-1 = determine from model dimensions)
     int32_t n_ctx         = 512;  // context size
-    int32_t n_batch       = 8;    // batch size for prompt processing
+    int32_t n_batch       = 512;  // batch size for prompt processing (must be >=32 to use BLAS)
     int32_t n_keep        = 0;    // number of tokens to keep from initial prompt
 
     // sampling parameters