diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 084aae29f..65a81cbeb 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+6 February 2008: Wouter
+	- clearer explanation of threading configure options.
+	- fixup asynclook test for nothreading (it creates only one process
+	  to do the extended test).
+
 5 February 2008: Wouter
 	- statistics-interval: seconds option added.
 	- test for statistics option
diff --git a/testcode/asynclook.c b/testcode/asynclook.c
index 170a1db08..8c8f79098 100644
--- a/testcode/asynclook.c
+++ b/testcode/asynclook.c
@@ -128,8 +128,13 @@ checkerr(const char* desc, int err)
 	}
 }
 
+#if !defined(HAVE_PTHREAD) && !defined(HAVE_SOLARIS_THREADS)
+/** only one process can communicate with async worker */
+#define NUMTHR 1
+#else /* have threads */
 /** number of threads to make in extended test */
 #define NUMTHR 10
+#endif
 
 /** struct for extended thread info */
 struct ext_thr_info {