diff --git a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
index fba9d15ef9a58..b852f552081ca 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ class NixlConnectorWorker:
 
         # Agent.
         import os
-        num_workers = 64
+        num_workers = 32
         # setting num_workers on the prefiller causes no notifs to be recved???
         # this is a hack to make sure we set num workers on the prefiller to 1.
         if os.getenv("VLLM_IS_PREFILL", "0") == "1":