diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/execution/QueryManagerConfig.java b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/execution/QueryManagerConfig.java
index d8442f45724a..d8c1da219ca1 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/execution/QueryManagerConfig.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/execution/QueryManagerConfig.java
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ public class QueryManagerConfig
     private int faultTolerantExecutionHashDistributionWriteTaskTargetMaxCount = 2000;
 
     private DataSize faultTolerantExecutionStandardSplitSize = DataSize.of(64, MEGABYTE);
-    private int faultTolerantExecutionMaxTaskSplitCount = 256;
+    private int faultTolerantExecutionMaxTaskSplitCount = 2048;
     private DataSize faultTolerantExecutionTaskDescriptorStorageMaxMemory = DataSize.ofBytes(round(AVAILABLE_HEAP_MEMORY * 0.15));
     private int faultTolerantExecutionMaxPartitionCount = 50;
     private int faultTolerantExecutionMinPartitionCount = 4;
diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/test/java/io/trino/execution/TestQueryManagerConfig.java b/core/trino-main/src/test/java/io/trino/execution/TestQueryManagerConfig.java
index 3b7126852aa1..f5ef3873e1f4 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/test/java/io/trino/execution/TestQueryManagerConfig.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/test/java/io/trino/execution/TestQueryManagerConfig.java
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ public void testDefaults()
                 .setFaultTolerantExecutionHashDistributionWriteTasksToNodesMinRatio(2.0)
                 .setFaultTolerantExecutionHashDistributionWriteTaskTargetMaxCount(2000)
                 .setFaultTolerantExecutionStandardSplitSize(DataSize.of(64, MEGABYTE))
-                .setFaultTolerantExecutionMaxTaskSplitCount(256)
+                .setFaultTolerantExecutionMaxTaskSplitCount(2048)
                 .setFaultTolerantExecutionTaskDescriptorStorageMaxMemory(DataSize.ofBytes(round(AVAILABLE_HEAP_MEMORY * 0.15)))
                 .setFaultTolerantExecutionMaxPartitionCount(50)
                 .setFaultTolerantExecutionMinPartitionCount(4)
diff --git a/docs/src/main/sphinx/admin/fault-tolerant-execution.md b/docs/src/main/sphinx/admin/fault-tolerant-execution.md
index 3d732a1d7008..1c4e043a74b9 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/sphinx/admin/fault-tolerant-execution.md
+++ b/docs/src/main/sphinx/admin/fault-tolerant-execution.md
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ properties only apply to a `TASK` retry policy.
     May be overridden for the current session with the
     `fault_tolerant_execution_max_task_split_count` [session
     property](session-properties-definition).
-  - `256`
+  - `2048`
 * - `fault-tolerant-execution-arbitrary-distribution-compute-task-target-size-growth-period`
   - The number of tasks created for any given non-writer stage of arbitrary
     distribution before task size is increased.