diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/BdbMultipleWorkQueues.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/BdbMultipleWorkQueues.java
index fabd685f..baebb909 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/BdbMultipleWorkQueues.java
+++ b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/BdbMultipleWorkQueues.java
@@ -434,7 +434,13 @@ public class BdbMultipleWorkQueues {
         keyData[len] = 0;
         long ordinalPlus = curi.getOrdinal() & 0x0000FFFFFFFFFFFFL;
         ordinalPlus = ((long) curi.getSchedulingDirective() << 56) | ordinalPlus;
-        long precedence = Math.min(curi.getPrecedence(), 127);
+        long rawPrecedence = curi.getPrecedence();
+        if (rawPrecedence > 127) {
+            LOGGER.warning("URI precedence " + rawPrecedence
+                    + " exceeds maximum 127 and will be clipped"
+                    + " for queue ordering: " + curi);
+        }
+        long precedence = Math.min(rawPrecedence, 127);
         ordinalPlus = (((precedence) & 0xFFL) << 48) | ordinalPlus;
         ArchiveUtils.longIntoByteArray(ordinalPlus, keyData, len + 1);
         return new DatabaseEntry(keyData);
diff --git a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/CrawlURI.java b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/CrawlURI.java
index 15ffc996..624572ca 100644
--- a/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/CrawlURI.java
+++ b/modules/src/main/java/org/archive/modules/CrawlURI.java
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ implements Reporter, Serializable, OverlayContext, Comparable<CrawlURI> {
     }
 
     /** spot for an integer cost to be placed by external facility (frontier).
-     *  cost is truncated to 8 bits at times, so should not exceed 255 */
+     *  cost is truncated to 7 bits at times, so should not exceed 127 */
     protected int holderCost = UNCALCULATED;
     /**
      * Return the 'holderCost' for convenience of external facility (frontier)