diff --git a/ngrams/term_frequencies.py b/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
index c74d47e..0e77682 100755
--- a/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
+++ b/ngrams/term_frequencies.py
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ def weekly_tf(partition,
 
     outrows = tf_func(subreddit_weeks, mwe_pass, mwe_tokenize, stopWords, Path(output_10p_sample_path) / ngram_output)
 
-    outchunksize = 100000
+    outchunksize = 10000
 
     Path(output_terms_path).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     Path(output_authors_path).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)