diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4f7e1f1c..ecb28a69 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 pyyaml
 
 # Support for setting thread/process name
-python-prctl
+# python-prctl
 
 # Apache Kafka backend support
 kafka-python