diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/owner-sync-pagure.j2 b/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/owner-sync-pagure.j2
index cc67dddd5f..c33160a190 100755
--- a/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/owner-sync-pagure.j2
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/owner-sync-pagure.j2
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ def get_pagure_project_branches(namespace):
     total_projects = first_page_rv.json()['total_projects']
     num_pages = int(ceil(total_projects / 100.0))
 
-    pool = multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool(4)
+    pool = multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool(8)
     # Since we are going to multi-thread, we need to make a partial function
     # call so that all the function needs is an iterable to run
     partial_get_pagure_projects_page = partial(