number of threads = 0 passed to the init_task_manager. nproc not working on containers?

common/utils/thread_pool/task_manager.c

@@ -446,9 +446,9 @@ void* worker_thread(void* arg)
 void init_task_manager(task_manager_t* man, uint32_t num_threads)
 {
   assert(man != NULL);
-  assert(num_threads > 0); // && num_threads < 33 && "Do you have zero or more than 32 processors??");
-  if(num_threads > 8){
-    printf("[MIR]: number of threads clamped to 8. %d number of threads asked \n", num_threads);
+//  assert(num_threads > 0); // && num_threads < 33 && "Do you have zero or more than 32 processors??");
+  if(num_threads == 0 || num_threads > 8){
+    printf("[MIR]: number of threads set to 8. %d number of threads asked \n", num_threads);
     num_threads = 8;
   }