alright, I have some questions here.... it says to set threads to 2x cpu threads... do you mean 2x cpu cores? it defaults to 8, but my cpu has like 5000 threads....

one programming thread. If your storage was infinitely fast, with N threads on an N core CPU it would max out your CPU

Your 5000 threads are mostly all waiting for things

got it, thanks

there is no hardware with > 1000 hyperthreads (intel marketing term) per socket, so there's still some confusion about terminology there i'm not talking of whatever random software happens to be running on your system, i'm talking about the inherent capabilities of your hardware

Right. I think the confusion is some tools will tell you the number of kernel threads that exist. For example, Window Task Manager is telling me my laptop has 3700 threads right now.