diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/proxies b/inventory/group_vars/proxies
index 1020223fd8..4b97c2ae3d 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/proxies
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/proxies
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Define resources for this group of hosts here.
 lvm_size: 50000
 mem_size: 8192
-num_cpus: 8
+num_cpus: 6
 
 # 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