diff --git a/eo/src/eoOpContainer.h b/eo/src/eoOpContainer.h
index 15053485..a2c9f850 100644
--- a/eo/src/eoOpContainer.h
+++ b/eo/src/eoOpContainer.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class eoOpContainer : public eoGenOp<EOT>
 {
   public :
   /** Ctor: nothing much to do */
-  eoOpContainer() : max_to_produce(2) {}
+  eoOpContainer() : max_to_produce(0) {}
 
   /** Dtor: delete all the GenOps created when wrapping simple ops
    */