diff --git a/searx/poolrequests.py b/searx/poolrequests.py
index 13c6a906e..f268df207 100644
--- a/searx/poolrequests.py
+++ b/searx/poolrequests.py
@@ -41,14 +41,18 @@ class HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter):
                               block=self._pool_block, **self._conn_params)
 
 
+connect = settings['outgoing'].get('pool_connections', 100)  # Magic number kept from previous code
+maxsize = settings['outgoing'].get('pool_maxsize', requests.adapters.DEFAULT_POOLSIZE)  # Picked from constructor
 if settings['outgoing'].get('source_ips'):
-    http_adapters = cycle(HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(pool_connections=100, source_address=(source_ip, 0))
+    http_adapters = cycle(HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(pool_connections=connect, pool_maxsize=maxsize,
+                                                    source_address=(source_ip, 0))
                           for source_ip in settings['outgoing']['source_ips'])
-    https_adapters = cycle(HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(pool_connections=100, source_address=(source_ip, 0))
+    https_adapters = cycle(HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(pool_connections=connect, pool_maxsize=maxsize,
+                                                     source_address=(source_ip, 0))
                            for source_ip in settings['outgoing']['source_ips'])
 else:
-    http_adapters = cycle((HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(pool_connections=100), ))
-    https_adapters = cycle((HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(pool_connections=100), ))
+    http_adapters = cycle((HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(pool_connections=connect, pool_maxsize=maxsize), ))
+    https_adapters = cycle((HTTPAdapterWithConnParams(pool_connections=connect, pool_maxsize=maxsize), ))
 
 
 class SessionSinglePool(requests.Session):
diff --git a/searx/settings.yml b/searx/settings.yml
index ff85684ac..96455fc23 100644
--- a/searx/settings.yml
+++ b/searx/settings.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ ui:
 outgoing: # communication with search engines
     request_timeout : 2.0 # seconds
     useragent_suffix : "" # suffix of searx_useragent, could contain informations like an email address to the administrator
+    pool_connections : 100 # Number of different hosts
+    pool_maxsize : 10 # Number of simultaneous requests by host
 # uncomment below section if you want to use a proxy
 # see http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies
 # SOCKS proxies are not supported : see https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/478