diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index d93272527..b245f8881 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -10,9 +10,10 @@
     - Function signature for kick() and evolv2() in the fortran changed to remove ``bkick`` entirely
     - Also removed ``kick_info_out``. Both of these can be reconstructed from ``kick_info``
 
-- Bug fixes: c
+- Bug fixes:
     - corrected mass sign in bjorklund wind routine in SSE_mlwind.f
     - fixed bug in ``bhspinmag`` assignment in ``assign_remnant.f``
+    - fixed issue added in v3.7.6 where sample fails if you have total_mass as your sampling target and use multiprocessing
 
 ## 4.0.1
 
diff --git a/src/cosmic/sample/sampler/independent.py b/src/cosmic/sample/sampler/independent.py
index 9a1b7c131..d0ba45d21 100644
--- a/src/cosmic/sample/sampler/independent.py
+++ b/src/cosmic/sample/sampler/independent.py
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ def get_independent_sampler(
         # set up the arguments for each chunk
         chunk_args = [(
             final_kstar1, final_kstar2, primary_model, ecc_model, porb_model, SF_start, SF_duration,
-            binfrac_model, met, SSEDict, chunk if sampling_target == "size" else None,
+            binfrac_model, met, SSEDict, chunk if sampling_target == "size" else size // n_chunks,
             chunk if sampling_target == "total_mass" else np.inf, sampling_target, trim_extra_samples,
             q_power_law, kwargs
         ) for chunk in chunk_sizes]
@@ -291,6 +291,10 @@ def _independent_sampler_worker(
     # set up multiplier if the mass sampling is inefficient
     multiplier = 1
 
+    # if size is passed as None, default to assuming a mean mass of 0.5 Msun (Kroupa IMF between 0.08, 150)
+    if size is None:
+        size = int(total_mass / 0.5)
+
     # track samples to actually return (after masks)
     mass1_singles = []
     mass1_binary = []