diff --git a/settings.sample.yaml b/settings.sample.yaml
index b21b809..e52ddbe 100644
--- a/settings.sample.yaml
+++ b/settings.sample.yaml
@@ -69,6 +69,3 @@ server_settings:
   # Maximum mebibytes per hour of images to server
   # Setting this to 0 disables the limiter
   max_mebibytes_per_hour: 0
-  # Number of threads for Netty worker pool
-  # Scale this according to your CPU cores
-  threads: 16