diff --git a/tools/server/server.cpp b/tools/server/server.cpp
index 3b5e03528..1b1cf439b 100644
--- a/tools/server/server.cpp
+++ b/tools/server/server.cpp
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ struct server_task {
         slot_params defaults;
         defaults.sampling    = params_base.sampling;
         defaults.speculative = params_base.speculative;
+        defaults.n_keep      = params_base.n_keep;
 
         // enabling this will output extra debug information in the HTTP responses from the server
         params.verbose           = params_base.verbosity > 9;
@@ -2060,6 +2061,7 @@ struct server_context {
             SLT_INF(slot, "new slot n_ctx_slot = %d\n", slot.n_ctx);
 
             slot.params.sampling = params_base.sampling;
+            slot.params.n_keep = params_base.n_keep;
 
             slot.callback_on_release = [this](int) {
                 queue_tasks.pop_deferred_task();