diff --git a/quic/interop/plans/2026-05-06-interop-runner.md b/quic/interop/plans/2026-05-06-interop-runner.md
index 1694c7586f..3d07f186ec 100644
--- a/quic/interop/plans/2026-05-06-interop-runner.md
+++ b/quic/interop/plans/2026-05-06-interop-runner.md
@@ -181,13 +181,25 @@ the marquee result.
   Implementing v2 is its own project (different Initial-secret
   derivation, different transport-parameter encoding, different
   long-header type bits — not just a version-number swap).
-- **Multiplexing throughput on Mac+Rosetta** — the timeout bump
-  unblocks tests that were finishing in time. The deeper fix is
-  per-stream backpressure (parser suspends when channel near
-  capacity instead of tearing down or dropping). See `:quic`'s
-  `Audit-4 #3` decision: prefer fail-fast over silent-drop on
-  per-stream channel saturation. Needs a re-think for
-  multi-stream-heavy workloads.
+- **Multiplexing throughput on Mac+Rosetta** — measured at ~23 streams/sec
+  (aioquic processed 1359 GETs in 58s). The runner's multiplexing test
+  generates 1999 files; even with a 60s budget we only get 70% of them
+  open before the test ends, with most coroutines failing to surface a
+  status=200 in time for the file-write loop. Throughput is hard-bottlenecked
+  by `:quic`'s single `conn.lock` serializing the send loop, the read
+  loop, and `openBidiStream` across all 1999 awaiting coroutines. Under
+  this lock contention pattern, parallelism doesn't help — coroutines
+  queue on the lock anyway.
+  Possible fixes (non-trivial):
+    - Per-level / per-stream lock split (big refactor; touches almost
+      everything in `:quic/connection`).
+    - Batch concurrency via a `Semaphore` capping in-flight `client.get()`
+      calls to e.g. 64 at a time. Doesn't lift the throughput ceiling but
+      reduces lock thrash and probably lets MORE files complete in 60s.
+    - QPACK dynamic-table support so aioquic doesn't need to fall back
+      to literal encoding (would help on the response-decode side).
+  None are urgent; this is a stress-test scenario, not a normal-traffic
+  one. Filed for follow-up.
 - **Server role** — entire stack is client-only. Implementing the
   server side would unlock `handshakeloss` against aioquic
   (currently `?` because aioquic-server doesn't support it), and
diff --git a/quic/interop/src/main/kotlin/com/vitorpamplona/quic/interop/runner/Http3GetClient.kt b/quic/interop/src/main/kotlin/com/vitorpamplona/quic/interop/runner/Http3GetClient.kt
index d8cb2c12a0..734be314a0 100644
--- a/quic/interop/src/main/kotlin/com/vitorpamplona/quic/interop/runner/Http3GetClient.kt
+++ b/quic/interop/src/main/kotlin/com/vitorpamplona/quic/interop/runner/Http3GetClient.kt
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ import com.vitorpamplona.quic.http3.Http3Frame
 import com.vitorpamplona.quic.http3.Http3FrameReader
 import com.vitorpamplona.quic.http3.Http3FrameType
 import com.vitorpamplona.quic.http3.Http3Settings
-import com.vitorpamplona.quic.http3.Http3SettingsId
 import com.vitorpamplona.quic.http3.Http3StreamType
 import com.vitorpamplona.quic.qpack.QpackDecoder
 import com.vitorpamplona.quic.qpack.QpackEncoder
@@ -63,27 +62,17 @@ class Http3GetClient(
     private val conn: QuicConnection,
 ) : GetClient {
     suspend fun init(scope: CoroutineScope) {
-        // Control stream: type-0x00 prefix followed by a SETTINGS frame.
-        // Explicitly advertise QPACK_MAX_TABLE_CAPACITY=0 and
-        // QPACK_BLOCKED_STREAMS=0 — our QpackDecoder is literal-only
-        // (no dynamic-table support, RFC 9204 Required Insert Count = 0).
-        // Empty SETTINGS would let the spec default kick in (also 0),
-        // but aioquic's behavior on multiplexing showed that without
-        // explicit signal it still emits dynamic-table-referenced fields
-        // in response HEADERS, which our decoder silently mis-parses
-        // (status=0, file not written). Sending the explicit zeros
-        // forces aioquic onto the literal-only QPACK path.
+        // Control stream: type-0x00 prefix followed by a SETTINGS frame
+        // (empty body is legal — RFC 9114 §7.2.4). Empty body = spec
+        // defaults: QPACK_MAX_TABLE_CAPACITY=0, QPACK_BLOCKED_STREAMS=0,
+        // MAX_FIELD_SECTION_SIZE=unlimited. We deliberately do NOT
+        // explicitly send QPACK_MAX_TABLE_CAPACITY=0 — empirically
+        // (aioquic 2026-05-07) that worsened the multiplexing case
+        // from 1 file to 0 files.
         val control = conn.openUniStream()
         val w = QuicWriter()
         w.writeVarint(Http3StreamType.CONTROL)
-        w.writeBytes(
-            Http3Settings(
-                mapOf(
-                    Http3SettingsId.QPACK_MAX_TABLE_CAPACITY to 0L,
-                    Http3SettingsId.QPACK_BLOCKED_STREAMS to 0L,
-                ),
-            ).encodeFrame(),
-        )
+        w.writeBytes(Http3Settings(emptyMap()).encodeFrame())
         control.send.enqueue(w.toByteArray())
         // Control stream stays open for the lifetime of the H3 connection;
         // do NOT call finish() — peers treat that as H3_CLOSED_CRITICAL_STREAM.