diff --git a/src/Benchmarks/appsettings.json b/src/Benchmarks/appsettings.json
index ae0375d8f..74c461d54 100644
--- a/src/Benchmarks/appsettings.json
+++ b/src/Benchmarks/appsettings.json
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 {
   "ConnectionString": "Server=(localdb)\\mssqllocaldb;Database=aspnet5-Benchmarks;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true",
-  "Scenarios": "Plaintext,Json"
+  "Scenarios": "Plaintext,Json",
+  "kestrel.maxPooledStreams": 256,
+  "kestrel.maxPooledHeaders": 256
 }