diff --git a/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md b/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md
index 38d5e2ab12..b4177d339c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG_PENDING.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 
 #### Broadcaster
 
+- \#2085 Set max refresh sessions threshold to 8 (@yondonfu)
+
 #### Orchestrator
 
 #### Transcoder
diff --git a/server/broadcast.go b/server/broadcast.go
index 7457c0d443..940598399e 100644
--- a/server/broadcast.go
+++ b/server/broadcast.go
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ import (
 var refreshTimeout = 2500 * time.Millisecond
 var maxDurationSec = common.MaxDuration.Seconds()
 
+// Max threshold for # of broadcast sessions under which we will refresh the session list
+var maxRefreshSessionsThreshold = 8.0
+
 var Policy *verification.Policy
 var BroadcastCfg = &BroadcastConfig{}
 var MaxAttempts = 3
@@ -97,7 +100,7 @@ func (bsm *BroadcastSessionsManager) selectSession() *BroadcastSession {
 
 	checkSessions := func(m *BroadcastSessionsManager) bool {
 		numSess := m.sel.Size()
-		if numSess < int(math.Ceil(float64(m.numOrchs)/2.0)) {
+		if numSess < int(math.Min(maxRefreshSessionsThreshold, math.Ceil(float64(m.numOrchs)/2.0))) {
 			go m.refreshSessions()
 		}
 		return (numSess > 0 || bsm.lastSess != nil)