diff --git a/docs/src/reference/docbook/configuration.xml b/docs/src/reference/docbook/configuration.xml
index 40deedf1ca..423bb147c7 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference/docbook/configuration.xml
+++ b/docs/src/reference/docbook/configuration.xml
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
       By default Spring Integration relies on default Task Scheduler via  <ulink url="http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/scheduling.html">Task Execution and Scheduling</ulink> provided by the Spring Framework 
       That in turn just delegates to an instance of Spring's <interfacename>TaskExecutor</interfacename> abstraction. Therefore,
       it's rather trivial to supply your own configuration. The "taskScheduler" bean is then responsible for managing
-      all pollers. The TaskScheduler will startup automatically by default. If you provide your own instance of
+      all pollers. The TaskScheduler will startup automatically by default with default thread pool of 10. If you provide your own instance of
       Task Scheduler however, you can set the 'autoStartup' property to <emphasis>false</emphasis> instead.
     </para>
     <para>
diff --git a/docs/src/reference/docbook/delayer.xml b/docs/src/reference/docbook/delayer.xml
index b97ed14ad4..85d858f904 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference/docbook/delayer.xml
+++ b/docs/src/reference/docbook/delayer.xml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
     </para>
     <para>
       The delayer delegates to an instance of Spring's <interfacename>TaskScheduler</interfacename> abstraction.
-      The default scheduler is a <classname>ThreadPoolTaskScheduler</classname> instance with a pool size of 1.
+      The default scheduler is a <classname>ThreadPoolTaskScheduler</classname> instance with a pool size of 10.
       If you want to delegate to a different scheduler, you can provide a reference through the delayer element's
       'scheduler' attribute:
       <programlisting language="xml"><![CDATA[ <delayer input-channel="input" output-channel="output"