diff --git a/plugins/String/config.py b/plugins/String/config.py
index 75d2cf446..9ec8b11fd 100644
--- a/plugins/String/config.py
+++ b/plugins/String/config.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ conf.registerGlobalValue(String.levenshtein, 'max',
     command."""))
 conf.registerGroup(String, 're')
 conf.registerGlobalValue(String.re, 'timeout',
-    registry.PositiveFloat(5, """Determines the maximum time, in seconds, that
+    registry.PositiveFloat(0.1, """Determines the maximum time, in seconds, that
     a regular expression is given to execute before being terminated. Since
     there is a possibility that user input for the re command can cause it to
     eat up large amounts of ram or cpu time, it's a good idea to keep this