On 10 Aug 2017, at 15:08, Maitraya Bhattacharyya <maitraya.linux@gmail.com> wrote:Hi Ian,I have 24 physical cores with hyperthreading switched off.Hi,And how many CPUs? If you have one CPU with 24 physical cores, then I think you wantppn = 24max-num-threads = 24num-threads = 24nodes = 1If you have two CPUs, each with 12 cores, then you probably wantppn = 24max-num-threads = 24num-threads = 12nodes = 1