diff --git a/substrate/bin/node/testing/src/bench.rs b/substrate/bin/node/testing/src/bench.rs
index 5dd0d012fb..2ca6428bed 100644
--- a/substrate/bin/node/testing/src/bench.rs
+++ b/substrate/bin/node/testing/src/bench.rs
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ impl BenchDb {
 			pruning: PruningMode::ArchiveAll,
 			source: sc_client_db::DatabaseSettingsSrc::Path {
 				path: dir.into(),
-				cache_size: 128,
+				cache_size: 512,
 			},
 		};
 
diff --git a/substrate/client/db/src/lib.rs b/substrate/client/db/src/lib.rs
index e00d608a5f..70f666aebf 100644
--- a/substrate/client/db/src/lib.rs
+++ b/substrate/client/db/src/lib.rs
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ pub enum DatabaseSettingsSrc {
 	Path {
 		/// Path to the database.
 		path: PathBuf,
-		/// Cache size in bytes.
+		/// Cache size in MiB.
 		cache_size: usize,
 	},
 
diff --git a/substrate/client/db/src/utils.rs b/substrate/client/db/src/utils.rs
index e62c4f052b..16239a82c2 100644
--- a/substrate/client/db/src/utils.rs
+++ b/substrate/client/db/src/utils.rs
@@ -243,6 +243,15 @@ pub fn open_database<Block: BlockT>(
 
 			db_config.memory_budget = memory_budget;
 
+			log::trace!(
+				target: "db",
+				"Open database at {}, state column budget: {} MiB, others({}) column cache: {} MiB",
+				path,
+				state_col_budget,
+				NUM_COLUMNS,
+				other_col_budget,
+			);
+
 			Arc::new(Database::open(&db_config, &path).map_err(db_err)?)
 		},
 		#[cfg(not(any(feature = "kvdb-rocksdb", test)))]