diff --git a/src/setup.h b/src/setup.h
index 589ff064..46f5abad 100644
--- a/src/setup.h
+++ b/src/setup.h
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 #define HTML_TABLE_2ND_PASS
 #define HTML_DEFAULT_INPUT_SIZE		20
 #define HTML_MAX_COLSPAN		32768
-#define HTML_MAX_ROWSPAN		32768
+#define HTML_MAX_ROWSPAN		16384
 #define HTML_MAX_CELLS_MEMORY		32*1024*1024
 
 #define MAX_STR_LEN			1024