diff --git a/template/base_config.json b/template/base_config.json
index 7b57675..342f7ba 100644
--- a/template/base_config.json
+++ b/template/base_config.json
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     },
     "dataset": {
         "name": "roneneldan/TinyStories",
-        "num_workers": 4,
+        "num_workers": 1,
         "num_proc": 4
     },
     "checkpoint": {