diff --git a/doc/src/Howto_lammps_gui.rst b/doc/src/Howto_lammps_gui.rst
index 165ed84d95..6faac96ce9 100644
--- a/doc/src/Howto_lammps_gui.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Howto_lammps_gui.rst
@@ -571,11 +571,12 @@ General Settings:
   size for the text editor and log font of the application can be set.
 - *GUI update interval:* Allows to set the time interval between GUI
   and data updates during a LAMMPS run in milliseconds. The default is
-  to update the GUI every 100 milliseconds. This is good for most cases.
-  For LAMMPS runs that run very fast, however, data may be missed and
+  to update the GUI every 10 milliseconds. This is good for most cases.
+  For LAMMPS runs that run *very* fast, however, data may be missed and
   through lowering this interval, this can be corrected. However, this
   will make the GUI use more resources, which may be a problem on some
-  computers with slower CPUs. The default value is 100 milliseconds.
+  computers with slower CPUs and a small number of CPU cores. This
+  setting may be changed to a value between 1 and 1000 milliseconds.
 
 Accelerators:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/tools/lammps-gui/lammpsgui.cpp b/tools/lammps-gui/lammpsgui.cpp
index 578cdb3876..c2000c8969 100644
--- a/tools/lammps-gui/lammpsgui.cpp
+++ b/tools/lammps-gui/lammpsgui.cpp
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ void LammpsGui::do_run(bool use_buffer)
 
     logupdater = new QTimer(this);
     connect(logupdater, &QTimer::timeout, this, &LammpsGui::logupdate);
-    logupdater->start(settings.value("updfreq", "100").toInt());
+    logupdater->start(settings.value("updfreq", "10").toInt());
 }
 
 void LammpsGui::render_image()
diff --git a/tools/lammps-gui/preferences.cpp b/tools/lammps-gui/preferences.cpp
index 71910346fb..426f2306ea 100644
--- a/tools/lammps-gui/preferences.cpp
+++ b/tools/lammps-gui/preferences.cpp
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ GeneralTab::GeneralTab(QSettings *_settings, LammpsWrapper *_lammps, QWidget *pa
     auto *freqval    = new QSpinBox;
     freqval->setRange(1, 1000);
     freqval->setStepType(QAbstractSpinBox::AdaptiveDecimalStepType);
-    freqval->setValue(settings->value("updfreq", "100").toInt());
+    freqval->setValue(settings->value("updfreq", "10").toInt());
     freqval->setObjectName("updfreq");
     freqlayout->addWidget(freqlabel);
     freqlayout->addWidget(freqval);