diff --git a/Sources/Containerization/LinuxContainer.swift b/Sources/Containerization/LinuxContainer.swift
index 8fa95a45..5ab42583 100644
--- a/Sources/Containerization/LinuxContainer.swift
+++ b/Sources/Containerization/LinuxContainer.swift
@@ -524,9 +524,9 @@ extension LinuxContainer {
 
             // Calculate VM memory with overhead for the guest agent.
             // The container cgroup limit stays at the requested memory, but the VM
-            // gets an additional 50MB for the guest agent (could be higher, could be lower
-            // but this is a decent baseline for now).
-            let guestAgentOverhead: UInt64 = 50.mib()
+            // gets an additional 75MiB for the guest agent (could be higher, could
+            // be lower but this is a decent baseline for now).
+            let guestAgentOverhead: UInt64 = 75.mib()
             let mib: UInt64 = 1.mib()
             let vmMemory = (self.memoryInBytes + guestAgentOverhead + mib - 1) & ~(mib - 1)
 
diff --git a/vminitd/Sources/vminitd/AgentCommand.swift b/vminitd/Sources/vminitd/AgentCommand.swift
index 76eb7f78..b361dde2 100644
--- a/vminitd/Sources/vminitd/AgentCommand.swift
+++ b/vminitd/Sources/vminitd/AgentCommand.swift
@@ -150,8 +150,8 @@ struct AgentCommand: AsyncParsableCommand {
         }
         t.start()
 
-        let eg = MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup(numberOfThreads: System.coreCount)
-        let blockingPool = NIOThreadPool(numberOfThreads: System.coreCount)
+        let eg = MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup(numberOfThreads: 1)
+        let blockingPool = NIOThreadPool(numberOfThreads: 2)
         blockingPool.start()
         let server = Initd(log: log, group: eg, blockingPool: blockingPool)