comment out max_document_size
diff --git a/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini b/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini
index 09d1887..a65d667 100644
--- a/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini
+++ b/rel/overlay/etc/default.ini
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 ; requests which update a single document as well as individual documents from
 ; a _bulk_docs request. The size limit is approximate due to the nature of JSON
 ; encoding. The size limit must be less than or equal to 8000000 bytes.
-max_document_size = 8000000 ; bytes
+;max_document_size = 8000000 ; bytes
 ;
 ; Maximum number of documents in a _bulk_docs request. Anything larger
 ; returns a 413 error for the whole request
diff --git a/test/elixir/test/bulk_docs_test.exs b/test/elixir/test/bulk_docs_test.exs
index 74500d4..7d7948f 100644
--- a/test/elixir/test/bulk_docs_test.exs
+++ b/test/elixir/test/bulk_docs_test.exs
@@ -132,11 +132,9 @@
 
   @tag :with_db
   test "bulk docs raises error for transaction larger than 10MB", ctx do
-    docs = [%{_id: "0", a: random_string(16_000_000)}]
-    old_size = Couch.get("/_node/node1@127.0.0.1/_config/couchdb/max_document_size").body
-    set_config_raw("couchdb", "max_document_size", "67108864") # 64M
+    # the default value for max_document_size is 8_000_000
+    docs = [%{_id: "0", a: random_string(9_000_000)}]
     resp = Couch.post("/#{ctx[:db_name]}/_bulk_docs", body: %{docs: docs})
-    set_config_raw("couchdb", "max_document_size", old_size) # set back
     assert resp.status_code == 413
     assert resp.body["error"] == "document_too_large"
     assert resp.body["reason"] == "0" # DocID