diff --git a/roles/pdc/frontend/templates/pdc.conf b/roles/pdc/frontend/templates/pdc.conf
index 17add4bf7a..8bedf17966 100644
--- a/roles/pdc/frontend/templates/pdc.conf
+++ b/roles/pdc/frontend/templates/pdc.conf
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Alias /docs/ /usr/share/doc/pdc/docs/build/html/
 Alias /saml2protected /usr/share/ipsilon/ui/saml2sp
 
-WSGIDaemonProcess pdc user=apache group=apache maximum-requests=1000 display-name=pdc processes={{ wsgi_procs - 1}} threads={{ wsgi_threads }}
+WSGIDaemonProcess pdc user=apache group=apache maximum-requests=100 display-name=pdc processes={{ wsgi_procs - 1}} threads={{ wsgi_threads }}
 WSGISocketPrefix run/wsgi
 WSGIRestrictStdout On
 WSGIRestrictSignal Off