diff --git a/src/sqlitetablemodel.cpp b/src/sqlitetablemodel.cpp
index 390b675c..aca5c64b 100644
--- a/src/sqlitetablemodel.cpp
+++ b/src/sqlitetablemodel.cpp
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SqliteTableModel::SqliteTableModel(QObject* parent, DBBrowserDB* db)
     , m_rowCount(0)
     , m_iSortColumn(0)
     , m_sSortOrder("ASC")
-    , m_chunkSize(1000)
+    , m_chunkSize(50000)
 {
 }
 
diff --git a/src/sqlitetablemodel.h b/src/sqlitetablemodel.h
index 037290c5..3ccefc99 100644
--- a/src/sqlitetablemodel.h
+++ b/src/sqlitetablemodel.h
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ private:
     QString m_sSortOrder;
     QMap<int, QString> m_mWhere;
 
+    /**
+     * @brief m_chunkSize Size of the next chunk fetch more will try to fetch.
+     * This value should be rather high, because our query
+     * uses LIMIT and sqlite3 will still execute the whole query and
+     * just skip the not wanted rows, but the execution will
+     * still take nearly the same time as doing the query at all up
+     * to that row count.
+     */
     size_t m_chunkSize;
 };