diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 93c546933c..1b54c59995 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ script:
   - "nosetests -v --with-cover --cover-package=sos --cover-html"
   - "sudo ~/virtualenv/python$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION/bin/python ./sosreport --help"
   - "sudo ~/virtualenv/python$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION/bin/python ./sosreport -l --config-file=sos.conf"
-  - "sudo ~/virtualenv/python$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION/bin/python ./sosreport -n kernel --batch --config-file=sos.conf | tee batch_output"
+  - "sudo ~/virtualenv/python$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION/bin/python ./sosreport --batch --config-file=sos.conf 2> errors | tee batch_output"
+  - "[[ ! -s errors ]]"
+  - "cat errors"
+  - "sudo ~/virtualenv/python$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION/bin/python ./sosreport --batch --build --config-file=sos.conf"
 git:
   depth: 5
diff --git a/sos/sosreport.py b/sos/sosreport.py
index 6337a0c88c..08cc8518cb 100644
--- a/sos/sosreport.py
+++ b/sos/sosreport.py
@@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ def collect(self):
             self.plugpool = ThreadPoolExecutor(self.opts.threads)
             # Pass the plugpool its own private copy of self.pluglist
             results = self.plugpool.map(self._collect_plugin,
-                                        list(self.pluglist), chunksize=1)
+                                        list(self.pluglist))
             self.plugpool.shutdown(wait=True)
             for res in results:
                 if not res: