diff --git a/caravel/bin/caravel b/caravel/bin/caravel
index d7dbee7464..11e899cf38 100755
--- a/caravel/bin/caravel
+++ b/caravel/bin/caravel
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ manager.add_command('db', MigrateCommand)
     '-p', '--port', default=config.get("CARAVEL_WEBSERVER_PORT"),
     help="Specify the port on which to run the web server")
 @manager.option(
-    '-w', '--workers', default=config.get("CARAVEL_WORKERS", 16),
+    '-w', '--workers', default=config.get("CARAVEL_WORKERS", 2),
     help="Number of gunicorn web server workers to fire up")
 @manager.option(
     '-t', '--timeout', default=config.get("CARAVEL_WEBSERVER_TIMEOUT"),
diff --git a/caravel/config.py b/caravel/config.py
index 267a777733..89bcaa76f4 100644
--- a/caravel/config.py
+++ b/caravel/config.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ with open(PACKAGE_FILE) as package_file:
     VERSION_STRING = json.load(package_file)['version']
 
 ROW_LIMIT = 50000
-CARAVEL_WORKERS = 16
+CARAVEL_WORKERS = 2
 
 CARAVEL_WEBSERVER_ADDRESS = '0.0.0.0'
 CARAVEL_WEBSERVER_PORT = 8088
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index fe410da2f9..c39539da67 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ of the parameters you can copy / paste in that configuration module: ::
     # Caravel specific config
     #---------------------------------------------------------
     ROW_LIMIT = 5000
-    CARAVEL_WORKERS = 16
+    CARAVEL_WORKERS = 4
 
     CARAVEL_WEBSERVER_PORT = 8088
     #---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -344,4 +344,3 @@ your environment.::
     npm run prod
     cd $CARAVEL_HOME
     python setup.py install
-