diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1f0895f9..da87212a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 1999-04-18  Martin Baulig  <martin@home-of-linux.org>
 
 	* include/glibtop/limits.h: New file.
-	(GLIBTOP_NCPU): Define this here and increase it to 256.
+	(GLIBTOP_NCPU): Define this here and increase it to 64.
 
 1999-03-30  Martin Baulig  <martin@home-of-linux.org>
 
diff --git a/include/glibtop/limits.h b/include/glibtop/limits.h
index 27b4fff6..7f878333 100644
--- a/include/glibtop/limits.h
+++ b/include/glibtop/limits.h
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
 
 BEGIN_LIBGTOP_DECLS
 
-/* Nobody should really be using more than 256 processors. */
-#define GLIBTOP_NCPU		256
+/* Nobody should really be using more than 64 processors. */
+#define GLIBTOP_NCPU		64
 
 END_LIBGTOP_DECLS