From 9a6227acb354255aec507329d29b3f4a31429ba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Ekl=C3=B6f?= Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 07:03:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: foot.ini: workers: "if you have a ridiculous number of cores" --- doc/foot.ini.5.scd | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/foot.ini.5.scd b/doc/foot.ini.5.scd index c32a8e06..24df3cbb 100644 --- a/doc/foot.ini.5.scd +++ b/doc/foot.ini.5.scd @@ -419,6 +419,10 @@ empty string to be set, but it must be quoted: *KEY=""*) multithreading. Default: the number of available logical CPUs (including SMT). Note that this is not always the best value. In some cases, the number of physical _cores_ is better. + + In case you have a ridiculous amount of cores and/or threads, + consider limiting the number of *workers*, since foot cannot + parallelize more than the number of visible rows. *utmp-helper* Path to utmp logging helper binary.