diff --git a/bootstrap/playbooks/celery.yaml b/bootstrap/playbooks/celery.yaml
index 0c98955e..1d145852 100644
--- a/bootstrap/playbooks/celery.yaml
+++ b/bootstrap/playbooks/celery.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     - shell: celery multi stop 2  -A solar.orchestration.runner
              chdir={{ celery_dir }}
       tags: [stop]
-    - shell: celery multi start 2 -A solar.orchestration.runner -P:2 prefork -c:2 3 -Q:1 scheduler,system_log -Q:2 celery,{{ hostname.stdout }}
+    - shell: celery multi start 2 -A solar.orchestration.runner -P:2 prefork -c:1 1 -c:2 3 -Q:1 scheduler,system_log -Q:2 celery,{{ hostname.stdout }}
              chdir={{ celery_dir }}
       tags: [master]
     - shell: celery multi start 1 -A solar.orchestration.runner -Q:1  {{ hostname.stdout }}