diff --git a/eth/downloader/queue.go b/eth/downloader/queue.go
index 9b93c1c7f7..c254c9eeef 100644
--- a/eth/downloader/queue.go
+++ b/eth/downloader/queue.go
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ const (
 )
 
 var (
-	blockCacheMaxItems            = 32768                  // Maximum number of blocks to cache before throttling the download
-	blockCacheInitialItems        = 2048                   // Initial number of blocks to start fetching, before we know the sizes of the blocks
-	blockCacheSizeWeight          = 0.1                    // Multiplier to approximate the average block size based on past ones
-	blockCacheMemory       uint64 = 2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 // Maximum amount of memory to use for block caching
+	blockCacheMaxItems            = 32768                                 // Maximum number of blocks to cache before throttling the download
+	blockCacheInitialItems        = blockCacheMemory / (10 * 1024 * 1024) // Initial number of blocks to start fetching, before we know the sizes of the blocks
+	blockCacheSizeWeight          = 0.1                                   // Multiplier to approximate the average block size based on past ones
+	blockCacheMemory       uint64 = 2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024                // Maximum amount of memory to use for block caching
 )
 
 var (
diff --git a/eth/downloader/resultstore.go b/eth/downloader/resultstore.go
index a6a94ca559..a6aebb848e 100644
--- a/eth/downloader/resultstore.go
+++ b/eth/downloader/resultstore.go
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ func (r *resultStore) SetThrottleTarget(targetRatio common.StorageSize) uint64 {
 		return r.throttleThreshold
 	}
 	targetRatio = max(targetRatio, 0.1)
-
 	// use the target ratio to determine
 	// (pendingGasUsed / target) <- estimated total size of collective in-flight retrievals
 	estBlockSize := common.StorageSize(r.pendingGasUsed/uint64(r.pendingCount)) / targetRatio