diff --git a/defaults/yacy.logging b/defaults/yacy.logging
index fee59023e..e74ebd00b 100644
--- a/defaults/yacy.logging
+++ b/defaults/yacy.logging
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ java.util.logging.FileHandler.encoding=UTF-8
 # Properties for the GuiHandler
 net.yacy.kelondro.logging.GuiHandler.level = ALL
 net.yacy.kelondro.logging.GuiHandler.formatter=net.yacy.kelondro.logging.SimpleLogFormatter
-net.yacy.kelondro.logging.GuiHandler.size = 400
+net.yacy.kelondro.logging.GuiHandler.size = 10000
 
 # Properties for the ConsoleOutErrHandler
 net.yacy.kelondro.logging.ConsoleOutErrHandler.level = ALL
diff --git a/htroot/ViewLog_p.html b/htroot/ViewLog_p.html
index 8b6763367..e18f5d61e 100644
--- a/htroot/ViewLog_p.html
+++ b/htroot/ViewLog_p.html
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     
     <form action="ViewLog_p.html" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8">
       <fieldset>
-        <input type="text" name="lines" id="lines" size ="4" value="#[lines]#" maxlength="9" /><label for="lines"> Lines (max. #[maxlines]#)</label>
+        <input type="text" name="lines" id="lines" size ="5" value="#[lines]#" maxlength="9" /><label for="lines"> Lines (max. #[maxlines]#)</label>
         <input type="checkbox" name="mode" id="mode" value="reversed" #(reverseChecked)#::checked="checked"#(/reverseChecked)# /><label for="mode">reversed order</label>
         <input type="text" name="filter" id="filter" size ="30" value="#[filter]#" maxlength="60" />
         <input type="submit" value="refresh" />
diff --git a/htroot/ViewLog_p.java b/htroot/ViewLog_p.java
index bad1f337c..741dd612f 100644
--- a/htroot/ViewLog_p.java
+++ b/htroot/ViewLog_p.java
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ public class ViewLog_p {
     public static serverObjects respond(@SuppressWarnings("unused") final RequestHeader header, final serverObjects post, @SuppressWarnings("unused") final serverSwitch env) {
         final serverObjects prop = new serverObjects();
         String[] log = new String[0];
-        boolean reversed = false;
+        boolean reversed = true;
         boolean json = false;
-        int maxlines = 400, lines = 200;
+        int maxlines = 10000, lines = 1000;
         /* Usually a regex like this would make no sense, ".*" would be
          * sufficient, but ".*.*" makes it a little bit more convenient
          * for the user to input regexes like ".*FOO.*" in the HTML
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class ViewLog_p {
          */
         String filter = ".*.*";
 
-        if(post != null){
+        if (post != null){
             reversed = (post.containsKey("mode") && "reversed".equals(post.get("mode")));
             json = post.containsKey("json");
 
diff --git a/htroot/env/base.css b/htroot/env/base.css
index 862dbf4f2..f552714cb 100644
--- a/htroot/env/base.css
+++ b/htroot/env/base.css
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ body#Surftips div.searchresults {
   overflow:hidden;
 }
 body#ViewLog div.log {
-  height:600px;
+  height:900px;
   overflow:scroll;
 }
 
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/kelondro/logging/GuiHandler.java b/source/net/yacy/kelondro/logging/GuiHandler.java
index e4eb711ec..297e5c726 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/kelondro/logging/GuiHandler.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/kelondro/logging/GuiHandler.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ import java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter;
 
 public class GuiHandler extends Handler {
 
-    private final static int DEFAULT_SIZE = 400;
+    private final static int DEFAULT_SIZE = 10000;
     private int size = DEFAULT_SIZE;
     private LogRecord buffer[];
     private int start, count;