From b89e0ce508a9aa104e1a33e127c63ffe738d8229 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:56:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix CPU detection on OS X

---
 src/calibre/__init__.py | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/__init__.py b/src/calibre/__init__.py
index 2bbf18d9e0..d7c5f0b223 100644
--- a/src/calibre/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/__init__.py
@@ -277,7 +277,16 @@ class StreamReadWrapper(object):
 
 def detect_ncpus():
     """Detects the number of effective CPUs in the system"""
-    return multiprocessing.cpu_count()
+    ans = -1
+    try:
+        ans = multiprocessing.cpu_count()
+    except:
+        from PyQt4.Qt import QThread
+        ans = QThread.idealThreadCount()
+    if ans < 1:
+        ans = 1
+    return ans
+
 
 def launch(path_or_url):
     if os.path.exists(path_or_url):