# Netdata parent limits?
**URL:** https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-parent-limits/3098
**Category:** General
**Created:** [July 8, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-parent-limits/3098 "2022-07-08T18:40:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@data-smith](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/data-smith)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-parent-limits/3098/1 "2022-07-08T18:40:55Z")
What are the reasonable limits for Netdata? You have one parent handling streaming data from multiple nodes. There has to be some limit. I have a cluster with 130+ nodes with 7K+ pods and it seems Netdata parent is really struggling. Is there any documentation on how much data a Netdata parent can reasonably handle?
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### Author:  [@data-smith](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/data-smith)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-parent-limits/3098/3 "2022-07-12T14:49:51Z")
I don’t believe versions of Netdata after v1.31 or v1.33 can handle 100+ clients with cgroups on and each server hosting 50+ pods. At least that’s what I see. I tried adding the config:
accept a streaming request every seconds = 1
That just makes it completely unusable. The clients never get a chance to send the data.
If I undo that setting then the panel that shows workers for streamrcv shows that all those workers get busy and then I have huge gaps in the panels, if there’s any data at all.
You should update the docs and mention that the Netdata Parent can handle only N amount of data.
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### Author:  [@data-smith](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/data-smith)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/netdata-parent-limits/3098/4 "2022-07-13T11:33:40Z")
I needed to set this in the config. Things seem to be working ok now.
web server threads = 12