diff --git a/ethdb/pebble/pebble.go b/ethdb/pebble/pebble.go
index c35a154cac..0dd57f1ee7 100644
--- a/ethdb/pebble/pebble.go
+++ b/ethdb/pebble/pebble.go
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ func New(file string, cache int, handles int, namespace string, readonly bool, e
 
 		// The size of memory table(as well as the write buffer).
 		// Note, there may have more than two memory tables in the system.
-		MemTableSize: memTableSize,
+		MemTableSize: uint64(memTableSize),
 
 		// MemTableStopWritesThreshold places a hard limit on the size
 		// of the existent MemTables(including the frozen one).
@@ -305,12 +305,9 @@ func (d *Database) NewBatch() ethdb.Batch {
 }
 
 // NewBatchWithSize creates a write-only database batch with pre-allocated buffer.
-// It's not supported by pebble, but pebble has better memory allocation strategy
-// which turns out a lot faster than leveldb. It's performant enough to construct
-// batch object without any pre-allocated space.
-func (d *Database) NewBatchWithSize(_ int) ethdb.Batch {
+func (d *Database) NewBatchWithSize(size int) ethdb.Batch {
 	return &batch{
-		b:  d.db.NewBatch(),
+		b:  d.db.NewBatchWithSize(size),
 		db: d,
 	}
 }
@@ -582,7 +579,7 @@ type pebbleIterator struct {
 // of database content with a particular key prefix, starting at a particular
 // initial key (or after, if it does not exist).
 func (d *Database) NewIterator(prefix []byte, start []byte) ethdb.Iterator {
-	iter := d.db.NewIter(&pebble.IterOptions{
+	iter, _ := d.db.NewIter(&pebble.IterOptions{
 		LowerBound: append(prefix, start...),
 		UpperBound: upperBound(prefix),
 	})
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index a43b1d3f8b..d8aee32a0e 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/btcsuite/btcd/btcec/v2 v2.2.0
 	github.com/cespare/cp v0.1.0
 	github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go v0.14.0
-	github.com/cockroachdb/pebble v0.0.0-20230906160148-46873a6a7a06
+	github.com/cockroachdb/pebble v0.0.0-20230906203007-2129a6e99d0f
 	github.com/consensys/gnark-crypto v0.10.0
 	github.com/crate-crypto/go-kzg-4844 v0.3.0
 	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/cockroachdb/logtags v0.0.0-20190617123548-eb05cc24525f // indirect
 	github.com/cockroachdb/redact v1.0.8 // indirect
 	github.com/cockroachdb/sentry-go v0.6.1-cockroachdb.2 // indirect
+	github.com/cockroachdb/tokenbucket v0.0.0-20230807174530-cc333fc44b06 // indirect
 	github.com/consensys/bavard v0.1.13 // indirect
 	github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.2 // indirect
 	github.com/crate-crypto/go-ipa v0.0.0-20230601170251-1830d0757c80 // indirect
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index ca5617c2cc..c98cb8257b 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -117,10 +117,16 @@ github.com/cockroachdb/logtags v0.0.0-20190617123548-eb05cc24525f h1:o/kfcElHqOi
 github.com/cockroachdb/logtags v0.0.0-20190617123548-eb05cc24525f/go.mod h1:i/u985jwjWRlyHXQbwatDASoW0RMlZ/3i9yJHE2xLkI=
 github.com/cockroachdb/pebble v0.0.0-20230906160148-46873a6a7a06 h1:T+Np/xtzIjYM/P5NAw0e2Rf1FGvzDau1h54MKvx8G7w=
 github.com/cockroachdb/pebble v0.0.0-20230906160148-46873a6a7a06/go.mod h1:bynZ3gvVyhlvjLI7PT6dmZ7g76xzJ7HpxfjgkzCGz6s=
+github.com/cockroachdb/pebble v0.0.0-20230821143352-55b44ac08de8 h1:2fNOyQqrHSjFdqnKqSLj9W7eGTcqKujJPA8vAuT1zN8=
+github.com/cockroachdb/pebble v0.0.0-20230821143352-55b44ac08de8/go.mod h1:bynZ3gvVyhlvjLI7PT6dmZ7g76xzJ7HpxfjgkzCGz6s=
+github.com/cockroachdb/pebble v0.0.0-20230906203007-2129a6e99d0f h1:s4IOGZ82V0XFPU+NS51ue3ebDrTmUsDak4ZMLStYJFI=
+github.com/cockroachdb/pebble v0.0.0-20230906203007-2129a6e99d0f/go.mod h1:nindLFinxeDPjP4qI9LtVHAwDef57/0s5KMfWgdktQc=
 github.com/cockroachdb/redact v1.0.8 h1:8QG/764wK+vmEYoOlfobpe12EQcS81ukx/a4hdVMxNw=
 github.com/cockroachdb/redact v1.0.8/go.mod h1:BVNblN9mBWFyMyqK1k3AAiSxhvhfK2oOZZ2lK+dpvRg=
 github.com/cockroachdb/sentry-go v0.6.1-cockroachdb.2 h1:IKgmqgMQlVJIZj19CdocBeSfSaiCbEBZGKODaixqtHM=
 github.com/cockroachdb/sentry-go v0.6.1-cockroachdb.2/go.mod h1:8BT+cPK6xvFOcRlk0R8eg+OTkcqI6baNH4xAkpiYVvQ=
+github.com/cockroachdb/tokenbucket v0.0.0-20230807174530-cc333fc44b06 h1:zuQyyAKVxetITBuuhv3BI9cMrmStnpT18zmgmTxunpo=
+github.com/cockroachdb/tokenbucket v0.0.0-20230807174530-cc333fc44b06/go.mod h1:7nc4anLGjupUW/PeY5qiNYsdNXj7zopG+eqsS7To5IQ=
 github.com/codegangsta/inject v0.0.0-20150114235600-33e0aa1cb7c0/go.mod h1:4Zcjuz89kmFXt9morQgcfYZAYZ5n8WHjt81YYWIwtTM=
 github.com/consensys/bavard v0.1.13 h1:oLhMLOFGTLdlda/kma4VOJazblc7IM5y5QPd2A/YjhQ=
 github.com/consensys/bavard v0.1.13/go.mod h1:9ItSMtA/dXMAiL7BG6bqW2m3NdSEObYWoH223nGHukI=