diff --git a/src/anbox/runtime.h b/src/anbox/runtime.h
index 8eb5a83..5d3d75a 100644
--- a/src/anbox/runtime.h
+++ b/src/anbox/runtime.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class Runtime : public DoNotCopyOrMove,
                 public std::enable_shared_from_this<Runtime> {
 public:
     // Our default concurrency setup.
-    static constexpr const std::uint32_t worker_threads = 2;
+    static constexpr const std::uint32_t worker_threads = 8;
 
     // create returns a Runtime instance with pool_size worker threads
     // executing the underlying service.