diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/llamacpp.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/llamacpp.py
index 1f75171dcb3..4cd89fc0eac 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/llamacpp.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/llamacpp.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class LlamaCppEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
     """Number of threads to use. If None, the number 
     of threads is automatically determined."""
 
-    n_batch: Optional[int] = Field(8, alias="n_batch")
+    n_batch: Optional[int] = Field(512, alias="n_batch")
     """Number of tokens to process in parallel.
     Should be a number between 1 and n_ctx."""