{endterm}
 
 Create a HTCondor configuration that all of the tests will derive from.
+If the machine you are running tests on has fewer than 5 DETECTED_CPUS some
+tests are known to fail. To be safe set NUM_CPUS to 8.
+
 Assuming the environment variable SRCDIR points to HTCondor sources:
 {term}
 pushd "%testdir%"
@@ -55,6 +58,7 @@
 mkdir log
 mkdir spool
 mkdir execute
+echo NUM_CPUS = 8 >> "%testdir%\condor_config"
 popd
 {endterm}