diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f44431ef4..549d19661 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.uid2</groupId>
     <artifactId>uid2-operator</artifactId>
-    <version>5.67.12</version>
+    <version>5.67.13-alpha-693-SNAPSHOT</version>
   
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/uid2/operator/Main.java b/src/main/java/com/uid2/operator/Main.java
index fa603d51b..436385880 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/uid2/operator/Main.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/uid2/operator/Main.java
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ private static Vertx createVertx() {
             ? 60 * 1000
             : 3600 * 1000;
 
-        final int defaultWorkerPoolSize = Math.max(2, (Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() - 2) / 2 + 1);
+        final int defaultWorkerPoolSize = Math.max(2, Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors());
         final int workerPoolSize = getEnvInt(Const.Config.DefaultWorkerPoolThreadCountProp, defaultWorkerPoolSize);
         LOGGER.info("Creating Vertx with default worker pool size: {}", workerPoolSize);