From 28960681d9d7fa5206848a78530328c25337d35d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zach Pomerantz <zmp@umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 23:57:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] limit audio pool to sane thread count

---
 assignment-client/src/audio/AudioMixerSlavePool.cpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/assignment-client/src/audio/AudioMixerSlavePool.cpp b/assignment-client/src/audio/AudioMixerSlavePool.cpp
index 6f0adaf661..7668553662 100644
--- a/assignment-client/src/audio/AudioMixerSlavePool.cpp
+++ b/assignment-client/src/audio/AudioMixerSlavePool.cpp
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ void AudioMixerSlavePool::setNumThreads(int numThreads) {
         int maxThreads = QThread::idealThreadCount();
         if (maxThreads == -1) {
             // idealThreadCount returns -1 if cores cannot be detected
-            maxThreads = std::numeric_limits<int>::max();
+            static const int MAX_THREADS_IF_UNKNOWN = 4;
+            maxThreads = MAX_THREADS_IF_UNKNOWN;
         }
 
         int clampedThreads = std::min(std::max(1, numThreads), maxThreads);