diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9af2c3ca..b89ba32e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ System:
 * On low-usage systems, don't hold backups for quite so long by taking a full backup more often.
 * Nightly status checks might fail if any domains had non-ASCII characters.
 * If domains need a TLS certificate and the user hasn't installed one yet using Let's Encrypt, the administrator would get a nightly email with weird interactive text asking them to agree to Let's Encrypt's ToS. Now just say that the provisioning can't be done automatically.
+* Reduce the number of background processes used by the management daemon to lower memory consumption
 
 Setup:
 
diff --git a/management/daemon.py b/management/daemon.py
index 1099a596..6de0a59a 100755
--- a/management/daemon.py
+++ b/management/daemon.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from mailconfig import get_mail_aliases, get_mail_aliases_ex, get_mail_domains,
 # live across http requests so we don't baloon the system with
 # processes.
 import multiprocessing.pool
-pool = multiprocessing.pool.Pool(processes=10)
+pool = multiprocessing.pool.Pool(processes=5)
 
 env = utils.load_environment()