Owin throwing TaskCanceledException when selfhosted application receives more than 3k concurrent requests

Hi, I'm new to OWIN, if I get some help on this issue, I really appreciate it.
I'm trying to do scalability testing of ASP.net Web API which is self-hosted as a windows service. It works fine for concurrent API requests up to 70 (each request internally further creates around 50 requests approximately - out of which 24 are concurrent, once responses are received again 18 calls will be concurrent and the rest all are sequential). But, When I started to run 100 concurrent requests it starts to fail for a few requests and it threw the following error:-

"System.Threading.Tasks.TaskCanceledException: A task was canceled.
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at System.Web.Http.Owin.HttpMessageHandlerAdapter.d__20.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at System.Web.Http.Owin.HttpMessageHandlerAdapter.d__0.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ConfiguredTaskAwaitable.ConfiguredTaskAwaiter.GetResult()"

When I look into the git repository for owin's SendResponseContentAsync Implementation (

AspNetWebStack/src/System.Web.Http.Owin/HttpMessageHandlerAdapter.cs

Line 567 in cd01862

    
           private async Task SendResponseContentAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, HttpResponseMessage response,

), I'm assuming it's throwing an exception at Ln578, which inturn returning a Task with canceled state at Ln596 via AbortResponseAsync() method. I'm guessing it's happening due to resource exhaust.

Is there any OWIN configuration available that I can use to handle multiple concurrent requests, Can I get any help, please?

adding @Tratcher too

/fyi @mkArtakMSFT

I've commented on the duplicate issue in Katana.

Thanks @Tratcher. Closing this as a dupe in that case.