On Monday, July 9, 2018 at 9:49:12 PM UTC-7, Jori Mäntysalo wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, John H Palmieri wrote: 
>
> >> I would also expect it to run as many threads as my laptop has 
> >> cores (+ hyperthreading if available). 
>
> > This makes sense for single-user machines, but the current default was 
> > implemented because it was deemed safer on machines used by multiple 
> > users. 
>   
>
Then there is a need for better maintainer on the machine. 
>

The reality is that there are many machines like that, though. I have also 
seen docker images that run on only one core, but where "ncpus" still 
reports all the cpus on the host machine. I don't know what the right 
default is, but I think there are many situations where "ncpus" isn't it.

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