diff --git a/docs/settings.rst b/docs/settings.rst
index 49460bc0e..01baaaf4b 100644
--- a/docs/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/settings.rst
@@ -345,10 +345,13 @@ The size of delete batches used by ``cleartokens`` management command.
 
 CLEAR_EXPIRED_TOKENS_BATCH_INTERVAL
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Default: ``0.1``
+Default: ``0``
 
 Time of sleep in seconds used by ``cleartokens`` management command between batch deletions.
 
+Set this to a non-zero value (e.g. `0.1`) to add a pause between batch sizes to reduce system
+load when clearing large batches of expired tokens.
+
 
 Settings imported from Django project
 --------------------------
diff --git a/oauth2_provider/settings.py b/oauth2_provider/settings.py
index 22e067716..3b7dea3f8 100644
--- a/oauth2_provider/settings.py
+++ b/oauth2_provider/settings.py
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
     # Should only be required in testing.
     "ALWAYS_RELOAD_OAUTHLIB_CORE": False,
     "CLEAR_EXPIRED_TOKENS_BATCH_SIZE": 10000,
-    "CLEAR_EXPIRED_TOKENS_BATCH_INTERVAL": 0.1,
+    "CLEAR_EXPIRED_TOKENS_BATCH_INTERVAL": 0,
 }
 
 # List of settings that cannot be empty