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 **server-threads** *N*
 
-The number of threads used to serve requests.  This should be related to the number of queues available in your network hardware, *not* the number of cores on your machine.  Because KeyDB uses spinlocks to reduce latency; making this too high will reduce performance.  We recommend using 4 here.  By default this is set to two.
+The number of threads used to serve requests.  This should be related to the number of queues available in your network hardware, *not* the number of cores on your machine.  Because KeyDB uses spinlocks to reduce latency; making this too high will reduce performance.  We recommend using 4 here.  By default this is set to one.
 
 **scratch-file-path** *path*