diff --git a/linkchecker b/linkchecker
index 362d4945..c07d4b10 100755
--- a/linkchecker
+++ b/linkchecker
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ group.add_option("-I", "--interactive", action="store_true", dest="interactive",
 """Ask for url if none are given on the commandline."""))
 group.add_option("-t", "--threads", type="int", dest="threads",
                  help=_(
-"""Generate no more than num threads. Default number of threads is 5."""))
+"""Generate no more than num threads. Default number of threads is 10."""))
 
 group.add_option("-V", "--version", action="store_true", dest="version",
                  help=_(
diff --git a/linkchecker.1 b/linkchecker.1
index 98b4a760..af16cbe4 100644
--- a/linkchecker.1
+++ b/linkchecker.1
@@ -137,12 +137,12 @@ Check only the syntax of external links, do not try to connect to them.
 For local file urls, only local files are internal. For
 http and ftp urls, all urls at the same domain name are internal.
 .TP
-\fB--status\fP
-Print check status every 5 seconds to stderr. Does not work with the
+\fB--no-status\fP
+Do not print check status every 5 seconds to stderr. Does not work with the
 \fB--debug\fP option.
 .TP
 \fB-t\fP \fInum\fP, \fB--threads=\fP\fInum\fP
-Generate no more than \fInum\fP threads. Default number of threads is 5.
+Generate no more than \fInum\fP threads. Default number of threads is 10.
 To disable threading specify a non-positive number.
 .TP
 \fB--timeout=\fP\fIsecs\fP