diff --git a/conduwuit-example.toml b/conduwuit-example.toml
index de1a5b5671226792ccec11a6e90c7feb955965c3..242f862cc733525aa36342287c20f80f6f3af6ad 100644
--- a/conduwuit-example.toml
+++ b/conduwuit-example.toml
@@ -256,8 +256,8 @@ allow_check_for_updates = true
 # Time in seconds before RocksDB will forcibly rotate logs. Defaults to 0.
 #rocksdb_log_time_to_roll = 0
 
-# Amount of threads that RocksDB will use for parallelism. Set to 0 to use all your CPUs.
-# Defaults to your CPU count divided by 2 (half)
+# Amount of threads that RocksDB will use for parallelism. Set to 0 to use all your physical cores.
+# Defaults to your CPU physical core count (not logical threads) count divided by 2 (half)
 #rocksdb_parallelism_threads = 0
 
 
diff --git a/src/config/mod.rs b/src/config/mod.rs
index 2cbcf9c0d3ac747f5b18450317377f7c44d97373..7ad42f099a35baf4b385a2ee537b76dd5020e653 100644
--- a/src/config/mod.rs
+++ b/src/config/mod.rs
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ fn default_rocksdb_log_time_to_roll() -> usize {
 }
 
 fn default_rocksdb_parallelism_threads() -> usize {
-    num_cpus::get() / 2
+    num_cpus::get_physical() / 2
 }
 
 // I know, it's a great name
diff --git a/src/database/abstraction/rocksdb.rs b/src/database/abstraction/rocksdb.rs
index 35fb12073e4e827ab06807bbcfc86a42e5feed8e..5321e147db2c0e946987475e8b1c2d5bea55ec12 100644
--- a/src/database/abstraction/rocksdb.rs
+++ b/src/database/abstraction/rocksdb.rs
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ fn db_options(rocksdb_cache: &rocksdb::Cache, config: &Config) -> rocksdb::Optio
     };
 
     let threads = if config.rocksdb_parallelism_threads == 0 {
-        num_cpus::get() // max CPUs if user specified 0
+        num_cpus::get_physical() // max cores if user specified 0
     } else {
         config.rocksdb_parallelism_threads
     };