diff --git a/tools/run-httpproxy.js b/tools/run-httpproxy.js
index e63c05fe34..c96db2d1ae 100644
--- a/tools/run-httpproxy.js
+++ b/tools/run-httpproxy.js
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ _.extend(HttpProxy.prototype, {
     self.proxy = httpProxy.createProxyServer({
       // agent is required to handle keep-alive, and http-proxy 1.0 is a little
       // buggy without it: https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/pull/488
-      agent: new http.Agent({ maxSockets: 100 }),
+      agent: new http.Agent({ maxSockets: 1000 }),
       xfwd: false //true
     });