diff --git a/python/ray/ray_constants.py b/python/ray/ray_constants.py
index f5fba1e17..790923c2f 100644
--- a/python/ray/ray_constants.py
+++ b/python/ray/ray_constants.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ DUPLICATE_REMOTE_FUNCTION_THRESHOLD = 100
 # The maximum resource quantity that is allowed. TODO(rkn): This could be
 # relaxed, but the current implementation of the node manager will be slower
 # for large resource quantities due to bookkeeping of specific resource IDs.
-MAX_RESOURCE_QUANTITY = 40000
+MAX_RESOURCE_QUANTITY = 100000
 
 # Each memory "resource" counts as this many bytes of memory.
 MEMORY_RESOURCE_UNIT_BYTES = 50 * 1024 * 1024