diff --git a/cta.spec.in b/cta.spec.in
index 527ee7e8ae777a281bd13ff9a84040b5b479c173..d74cf6a39233ef82b7368e7bf99c1d0b3b8b3930 100644
--- a/cta.spec.in
+++ b/cta.spec.in
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ The xroot plugin
 %{_libdir}/libXrdSsiCta.so*
 %attr(0644,root,root) %config(noreplace) /etc/logrotate.d/cta-frontend
 %attr(0644,root,root) %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/cta/cta-frontend-xrootd.conf
+%attr(0644,root,root) %config(noreplace) /etc/sysconfig/cta-frontend
 %attr(0644,cta,tape) /etc/systemd/system/cta-frontend.service
 
 #Frontend installs libraries so we need ldconfig.
diff --git a/xroot_plugins/CMakeLists.txt b/xroot_plugins/CMakeLists.txt
index 97449e20510e995f905a9c1eb881bda6bb8fda8f..3d956ce7c9dc014cfb6df2304b102b00b50ec28f 100644
--- a/xroot_plugins/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/xroot_plugins/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -48,4 +48,5 @@ endif (OCCI_SUPPORT)
 install(TARGETS XrdSsiCta DESTINATION usr/${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
 install(FILES cta-frontend-xrootd.conf DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR}/cta)
 install(FILES cta-frontend.logrotate DESTINATION /etc/logrotate.d RENAME cta-frontend)
+install(FILES cta-frontend.sysconfig DESTINATION /etc/sysconfig RENAME cta-frontend)
 install(FILES cta-frontend.service DESTINATION /etc/systemd/system)
diff --git a/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend.service b/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend.service
index 5cec9f5024f3b9aaaaa56cb107fe827adb7b8900..b4cb19cab86c24f06454d95e0776f819b64fae2a 100644
--- a/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend.service
+++ b/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend.service
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Description=CTA frontend plugin for the XRoot deamon
 After=network-online.target
 
 [Service]
+EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/cta-frontend
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xrootd -l /var/log/cta-frontend-xrootd.log -c /etc/cta/cta-frontend-xrootd.conf -k fifo -n cta
 User=cta
 Type=simple
diff --git a/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend.sysconfig b/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend.sysconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2898bc48fa366fa0da2a943468bdded865e36d83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xroot_plugins/cta-frontend.sysconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# This is to improve SSI parrallel event treatment 
+XRD_PARALLELEVTLOOP=10