Scott O’Keefe recently released new rules for the Domino Configuration Tuner. One of this rules watches the “Max Active Threads” setting in the server document.
The HTTP_MaxActiveThreads setting, found on the Internet Protocols/HTTP tab of the server document should be set to keep the CPU sufficiently busy and by default, it has a value of 40. DCT recommends to set this value between 40 and 80.
I ran a scan against my test server and DCT reported that HTTP_MaxActiveThreads has a value of 100 which is not a recommended setting. So I edited the server document and changed the value to the default value.
After saving the document, I restarted the server for the changes to take effect.
This is the point, where Lotus Notes Traveler enters the scene. I looked at the console and saw the following:

Aha, Lotus Traveler is restarting the HTTP task. Well, nothing strange about this. In the end both, Traveler and HTTP worked as usual.
I ran the DCT scan again and was very surprised that once again the HTTP_MaxActiveThreads rule reports a not recommended value of 100.
I opened the server doc to verify the value and indeed, the value had changed from 40 to 100 again.
I once again changed the setting and restarted the server. Same result.
I reconfigured the server to not start traveler at server startup. This time, the setting did not change automatically.
Does anybody know something about this behaviour? Is this a bug or a feature? Maybe it is documented somewhere. Any hint is appreciated.
Edit: Forgot to mention that the server and Lotus Traveler are 8.5.1