diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/proxies b/inventory/group_vars/proxies
index 0c2f1f708a..7dd5198663 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/proxies
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/proxies
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Define resources for this group of hosts here.
 lvm_size: 30000
 mem_size: 4192
-num_cpus: 2
+num_cpus: 4
 
 tcp_ports: [
     # For apache, generally.