diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9130280..00a661f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -343,6 +343,12 @@ version = "1.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8c3c1a368f70d6cf7302d78f8f7093da241fb8e8807c05cc9e51a125895a6d5b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "benri"
+version = "0.1.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "dcf749a9459ea5ea4feb27b10368e6e86217274d64bcb8a0409e785c9bdf591d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bit-set"
 version = "0.5.3"
@@ -1956,6 +1962,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "arti-client",
  "arti-hyper",
+ "benri",
  "bytes",
  "dirs",
  "eframe",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index bbf7de4..36d86c4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ distro = []
 anyhow = "1.0.65"
 arti-client = { version = "0.7.0", features = ["static"] }
 arti-hyper = "0.7.0"
+benri = "0.1.6"
 bytes = "1.2.1"
 dirs = "4.0.0"
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -47,7 +48,6 @@ hyper = "0.14.20"
 hyper-tls = "0.5.0"
 image = { version = "0.24.4", features = ["png"] }
 log = "0.4.17"
-num_cpus = "1.13.1"
 num-format = { version = "0.4.3", default-features = false }
 once_cell = "1.17.1"
 portable-pty = "0.7.0"
diff --git a/src/disk.rs b/src/disk.rs
index 07c3595..a2fa137 100644
--- a/src/disk.rs
+++ b/src/disk.rs
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ impl Default for State {
 
 impl State {
 	pub fn new() -> Self {
-		let max_threads = num_cpus::get();
+		let max_threads = benri::threads!();
 		let current_threads = if max_threads == 1 { 1 } else { max_threads / 2 };
 		Self {
 			status: Status::default(),
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index da80bef..dc639cd 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ impl App {
 			pub_sys,
 			benchmarks,
 			pid,
-			max_threads: num_cpus::get(),
+			max_threads: benri::threads!(),
 			now,
 			admin: false,
 			exe: String::new(),