diff --git a/llvm/tools/llvm-lto2/llvm-lto2.cpp b/llvm/tools/llvm-lto2/llvm-lto2.cpp
--- a/llvm/tools/llvm-lto2/llvm-lto2.cpp
+++ b/llvm/tools/llvm-lto2/llvm-lto2.cpp
@@ -65,8 +65,7 @@
                                        "import files for the "
                                        "distributed backend case"));
 
-static cl::opt<int> Threads("thinlto-threads",
-                            cl::init(llvm::heavyweight_hardware_concurrency()));
+static cl::opt<int> Threads("thinlto-threads", cl::init(2));
 
 static cl::list<std::string> SymbolResolutions(
     "r",