diff --git a/cookbooks/colab/templates/gunicorn.py.erb b/cookbooks/colab/templates/gunicorn.py.erb
index 512e3c5..9126f95 100644
--- a/cookbooks/colab/templates/gunicorn.py.erb
+++ b/cookbooks/colab/templates/gunicorn.py.erb
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ workers = <%= node['config']['colab_http_workers'] || 'multiprocessing.cpu_count
 syslog = True
 proc_name = "colab"
 timeout = 90
+max_requests = 1000
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