diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index deb998aa71..4242e8a9af 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-01-06  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>
+
+	* plug-ins/common/tile.c (tile): update the progress less often.
+
 2008-01-05  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>
 
 	* plug-ins/pygimp/pygimp-image.c: new Image.new_layer() method,
diff --git a/plug-ins/common/tile.c b/plug-ins/common/tile.c
index 303a06cba1..c47af9da0d 100644
--- a/plug-ins/common/tile.c
+++ b/plug-ins/common/tile.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ tile (gint32  image_id,
 
               progress += src_rgn.w * src_rgn.h;
 
-              if (c % 8 == 0)
+              if (c % 16 == 0)
                 gimp_progress_update ((gdouble) progress /
                                       (gdouble) max_progress);
             }