diff --git a/src/slurmctld/slurmctld.h b/src/slurmctld/slurmctld.h
index a228906333055edaba2cb02a9d84e3f659d6fd66..cb3b50b13d9816c0408babc40319e2b125481ce0 100644
--- a/src/slurmctld/slurmctld.h
+++ b/src/slurmctld/slurmctld.h
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
  *  GENERAL CONFIGURATION parameters and data structures
 \*****************************************************************************/
 /* Maximum parallel threads to service incoming RPCs */
-#define MAX_SERVER_THREADS 60
+#define MAX_SERVER_THREADS 100
 
 /* Maximum size we want to support for user strings (e.g. job comment).
  * Try to prevent user from filling slurmctld's memory */