diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/proxies b/inventory/group_vars/proxies
index fdc6ac37f8..38651e79de 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/proxies
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/proxies
@@ -110,8 +110,7 @@ ipa_host_group: proxies
 ipa_host_group_desc: Proxies between internal hosts and the Internet
 lvm_size: 100000
 # This is used in the httpd.conf to determine the value for serverlimit and
-# maxrequestworkers. On 8gb proxies, 900 seems fine. But on 4gb proxies, this
-# should be lowered in the host vars for that proxy.
+# maxrequestworkers. On proxies with 8 cpus it should be 300 * 8 = 3200
 maxrequestworkers: 3200
 mem_size: 8192
 nagios_Check_Services:
diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/proxies_stg b/inventory/group_vars/proxies_stg
index 0ee6c3e8c4..58d8e59112 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/proxies_stg
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/proxies_stg
@@ -60,9 +60,8 @@ ipa_host_group: proxies
 ipa_host_group_desc: Proxies between internal hosts and the Internet
 lvm_size: 100000
 # This is used in the httpd.conf to determine the value for serverlimit and
-# maxrequestworkers. On 8gb proxies, 900 seems fine. But on 4gb proxies, this
-# should be lowered in the host vars for that proxy.
-maxrequestworkers: 900
+# maxrequestworkers. On proxies with 8 cpus it should be 300 * 8 = 3200
+maxrequestworkers: 3200
 mem_size: 49152
 num_cpus: 8
 ocp_masters_stg: