# Crate soft nproc 2048 too low

**URL:** <https://community.cratedb.com/t/crate-soft-nproc-2048-too-low/263>\
**Category:** Documentation\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/crate-soft-nproc-2048-too-low/263 "2019-08-06T10:48:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![senchi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.cratedb.com/senchi/32/83_2.png) [@senchi](https://community.cratedb.com/u/senchi)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 10:48am UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/crate-soft-nproc-2048-too-low/263/1 "2019-08-06T10:48:24Z")

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When I set the nproc to 2048 (as recommended in the docs: [https://crate.io/docs/crate/guide/en/latest/admin/bootstrap-checks.html](https://crate.io/docs/crate/guide/en/latest/admin/bootstrap-checks.html)), I get the following:

```
[2019-08-06T10:40:04,085][ERROR][o.e.b.BootstrapProxy] [Schrammacher] node validation exception
[1] bootstrap checks failed
[1]: max number of threads [2048] for user [bamboo] is too low, increase to at least [4096]

```

Once I’ve increased the nproc to 4096 the [Crate.IO](http://Crate.IO) starts up correctly.

Can you pleas clarify if this is just an oversight in the docs or some other problem?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![smu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.cratedb.com/smu/32/60_2.png) [@smu](https://community.cratedb.com/u/smu)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.cratedb.com/t/crate-soft-nproc-2048-too-low/263/2 "2019-08-06T13:54:52Z")

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Yes you’re right, the guide is outdated and the expected minimum `nproc` value must be `4096` for CrateDB versions \>= 3.0.0. We’ll update our guide. Thanks for bringing this up!