diff --git a/charts/pulsar/templates/proxy-configmap.yaml b/charts/pulsar/templates/proxy-configmap.yaml
index a069878..66ea48d 100644
--- a/charts/pulsar/templates/proxy-configmap.yaml
+++ b/charts/pulsar/templates/proxy-configmap.yaml
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ metadata:
     component: {{ .Values.proxy.component }}
 data:
   clusterName: {{ template "pulsar.cluster.name" . }}
-  httpNumThreads: "8"
   statusFilePath: "{{ template "pulsar.home" . }}/status"
   # prometheus needs to access /metrics endpoint
   webServicePort: "{{ .Values.proxy.ports.http }}"
diff --git a/charts/pulsar/values.yaml b/charts/pulsar/values.yaml
index f3da13e..a44b8e5 100644
--- a/charts/pulsar/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/pulsar/values.yaml
@@ -889,6 +889,7 @@ proxy:
       -XX:-ResizePLAB
       -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError
       -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem
+    httpNumThreads: "8"
   ## Add a custom command to the start up process of the proxy pods (e.g. update-ca-certificates, jvm commands, etc)
   additionalCommand:
   ## Proxy service