diff --git a/eventlet/greenpool.py b/eventlet/greenpool.py
index 223dcbc..f3a791a 100644
--- a/eventlet/greenpool.py
+++ b/eventlet/greenpool.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ except NameError:
 class GreenPool(object):
     """ The GreenPool class is a pool of green threads.
     """
-    def __init__(self, size):
+    def __init__(self, size=1000):
         self.size = size
         self.coroutines_running = set()
         self.sem = semaphore.Semaphore(size)
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ class GreenPile(object):
     GreenPool.  To do this, construct it with an integer size parameter instead 
     of a GreenPool
     """
-    def __init__(self, size_or_pool):
+    def __init__(self, size_or_pool=1000):
         if isinstance(size_or_pool, GreenPool):
             self.pool = size_or_pool
         else:
diff --git a/examples/connect.py b/examples/connect.py
index 0980b0b..3d11b9f 100644
--- a/examples/connect.py
+++ b/examples/connect.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ def geturl(url):
     return c.recv(1024)
 
 urls = ['www.google.com', 'www.yandex.ru', 'www.python.org']
-pile = eventlet.GreenPile(200)
+pile = eventlet.GreenPile()
 for x in urls:
     pile.spawn(geturl, x)
 
diff --git a/examples/echoserver.py b/examples/echoserver.py
index 0e1f482..41c0b57 100644
--- a/examples/echoserver.py
+++ b/examples/echoserver.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ server = socket.socket()
 server.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET,socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
 server.bind(('0.0.0.0', 6000))
 server.listen(50)
-pool = eventlet.GreenPool(10000)
+pool = eventlet.GreenPool()
 while True:
     try:
         new_sock, address = server.accept()
diff --git a/examples/webcrawler.py b/examples/webcrawler.py
index 53c6e8f..a4f5e2a 100644
--- a/examples/webcrawler.py
+++ b/examples/webcrawler.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
-"""\
-@file webcrawler.py
-
+"""
 This is a simple web "crawler" that fetches a bunch of urls using a pool to 
 control the number of outbound connections. It has as many simultaneously open
 connections as coroutines in the pool.