diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c71a07822..a9a23c86b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ### `Fixed`
 
 - [#882](https://github.com/nf-core/eager/pull/882) Define DSL1 execution explicitly, as new versions Nextflow made DSL2 default (♥ to & fix from @Lehmann-Fabian)
+- [#879](https://github.com/nf-core/eager/issues/879) Add missing threads parameter for pre-clipping FastQC for single end data that caused insufficient memory in some cases (♥ to @marcel-keller for reporting)
 
 ### `Dependencies`
 
diff --git a/main.nf b/main.nf
index ae21a644e..3ed1e2f3d 100644
--- a/main.nf
+++ b/main.nf
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ process fastqc {
     """
     } else {
     """
-    fastqc -q $r1
+    fastqc -t ${task.cpus} -q $r1
     rename 's/_fastqc\\.zip\$/_raw_fastqc.zip/' *_fastqc.zip
     rename 's/_fastqc\\.html\$/_raw_fastqc.html/' *_fastqc.html
     """