diff --git a/doc/example/example.conf b/doc/example/example.conf
index 1138ed7e3738007783f7d0aa3bff98f8d074b96b..e5fe938857dcda25cd4e951ae110b1c34fa5ca43 100644
--- a/doc/example/example.conf
+++ b/doc/example/example.conf
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ PARAMS
    # - message_size: ROSS expects you to upper bound your event message size.
    #                 Going over this size will crash or otherwise destroy your 
    #                 simulation.
-   message_size="256";
+   message_size="368";
    # - pe_mem_factor: this is a multiplier to the event memory allocation that
    #                  ROSS does up front (multiplier is per-PE). Increase this 
    #                  (or change the associated mem_factor variable in
diff --git a/doc/example_heterogeneous/example.conf b/doc/example_heterogeneous/example.conf
index 7f00fe2915c293c4ae62c4da14ca4dbe0ee7b368..8d9ae7ad06f439aab8cd5e41c3255fd795cd001f 100644
--- a/doc/example_heterogeneous/example.conf
+++ b/doc/example_heterogeneous/example.conf
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ LPGROUPS {
 
 PARAMS {
     ## ROSS parameters
-    message_size="256";
+    message_size="352";
 
     ## global modelnet parameters 
     modelnet_order=("simplenet");
diff --git a/doc/example_heterogeneous/example_torus.conf b/doc/example_heterogeneous/example_torus.conf
index 28bb759ab375563dd6410718858cbeb84e048f1e..fbe6e28cb771062888031c4ecb5774a731fa25c7 100644
--- a/doc/example_heterogeneous/example_torus.conf
+++ b/doc/example_heterogeneous/example_torus.conf
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ LPGROUPS {
 
 PARAMS {
     ## ROSS parameters
-    message_size="256";
+    message_size="352";
 
     ## global modelnet parameters 
     modelnet_order=("torus","simplenet");