diff --git a/tardis/data/tardis_example_config.yml b/tardis/data/tardis_example_config.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 29fe51de8ee..00000000000
--- a/tardis/data/tardis_example_config.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-#IMPORTANT any pure floats need to have a +/- after the e e.g. 2e+5
-#Hopefully pyyaml will fix this soon.
----
-#Currently only simple1d is allowed
-config_type: simple1d
-
-#luminosity any astropy.unit convertible to erg/s
-#special unit log_lsun(log(luminosity) - log(L_sun)
-supernova:
-  luminosity: 9.44 log_lsun
-  time_explosion: 13 day
-  distance : 1 Mpc
-
-#time since explosion
-
-
-
-atom_data: atom_data.h5
-
-plasma:
-    initial_t_inner: 10000 K
-    initial_t_rad: 10000 K
-    disable_electron_scattering: no
-    type: nebular
-    #radiative_rates_type - currently supported are lte, nebular and detailed
-    radiative_rates_type: detailed
-    #line interaction type - currently supported are scatter, downbranch and macroatom
-    line_interaction_type : macroatom
-    w_epsilon : 1.0e-10
-
-    nlte:
-        species: [Si 2, ca iii]
-#        coronal_approximation: False
-#        classical_nebular: False
-
-model:
-    structure:
-        type: file
-        filetype
-        filename
-        lowest_shell
-        highest_shell
-        no_of_shells : 20
-#        file:
-#            type : artis
-#            name : artis_model.dat
-#            v_lowest: 10000.0 km/s
-#            v_highest: 20000.0 km/s
-
-
-        velocity:
-            type : linear
-            v_inner : 1.1e4 km/s
-            v_outer : 2e4 km/s
-
-
-        density:
-            #showing different configuration options separated by comments
-            #simple uniform:
-            #---------------
-#            type : uniform
-#            value : 1e-12 g/cm^3
-            #---------------
-
-            #branch85_w7 - fit of seven order polynomial to W7 (like Branch 85):
-            #---------------
-            type : branch85_w7
-            #value : 1e-12
-            # default, no need to change!
-            #time_0 : 19.9999584 s
-            # default, no need to change!
-            #density_coefficient : 3e29
-            #---------------
-
-
-    abundances:
-      type: uniform | file
-        #file:
-        #    type : artis
-        #    name : artis_abundances.dat
-
-#        abundance_set:
-#            type: uniform
-#            name: lucy99
-#        nlte_species : [Si2]
-#        C: 0.01
-#        O: 0.01
-#        Ne: 0.01
-#        Mg: 0.01
-#        Si: 0.45
-#        S: 0.35
-#        Ar: 0.04
-#        Ca: 0.03
-#        Fe: 0.07
-#        Co: 0.01
-#        Ni: 0.01
-         Si: 1.00
-
-
-montecarlo:
-    seed: 23111963171620
-    no_of_packets : 2.e+4
-    iterations: 100
-    convergence_strategy:
-        type: specific
-        damping_constant: 0.5
-        threshold: 0.05
-        fraction: 0.8
-        hold_iterations: 3
-
-
-
-#    convergence_strategy:
-#        type: 'tighten'
-#        tighten_parameters: [1., 1., 0.75, 0.5, 0.25, 0.125]
-#        convergence_percentage: 0.01
-
-#        type: 'undampened'
-#        t_inner_convergence: 0.01
-
-
-#    last_no_of_packets: 2.0e+5
-#    no_of_virtual_packets: 10
-
-
-spectrum:
-    start : 500 angstrom
-    end : 20000 angstrom
-    bins : 1000
-    spectrum_type: flux #flux or lum_density
diff --git a/tardis/io/schemas/montecarlo.yml b/tardis/io/schemas/montecarlo.yml
index f7424c3e3e7..7fed6027f9f 100644
--- a/tardis/io/schemas/montecarlo.yml
+++ b/tardis/io/schemas/montecarlo.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ properties:
   nthreads:
     type: number
     multipleOf: 1.0
-    default: 1
-    description: The number of OpenMP threads.
+    default: 0
+    description: The number of OpenMP threads. If set to 0, the value stored in
+      the OMP_NUM_THREADS environment variable is used. If this variable is not
+      set, the maximum number of available threads are used.
   seed:
     type: number
     multipleOf: 1.0