diff --git a/actix-server/examples/tcp-echo.rs b/actix-server/examples/tcp-echo.rs
index 52ae5349..548a3591 100644
--- a/actix-server/examples/tcp-echo.rs
+++ b/actix-server/examples/tcp-echo.rs
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ async fn run() -> io::Result<()> {
     let addr = ("127.0.0.1", 8080);
     info!("starting server on port: {}", &addr.0);
 
-    // Bind socket address and start worker(s). By default, the server uses the number of available
-    // logical CPU cores as the worker count. For this reason, the closure passed to bind needs
-    // to return a service *factory*; so it can be created once per worker.
+    // Bind socket address and start worker(s). By default, the server uses the number of physical
+    // CPU cores as the worker count. For this reason, the closure passed to bind needs to return
+    // a service *factory*; so it can be created once per worker.
     Server::build()
         .bind("echo", addr, move || {
             let count = Arc::clone(&count);
diff --git a/actix-server/src/builder.rs b/actix-server/src/builder.rs
index a63e5652..d2aa08e1 100644
--- a/actix-server/src/builder.rs
+++ b/actix-server/src/builder.rs
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ impl ServerBuilder {
         let (cmd_tx, cmd_rx) = unbounded_channel();
 
         ServerBuilder {
-            threads: num_cpus::get(),
+            threads: num_cpus::get_physical(),
             token: 0,
             factories: Vec::new(),
             sockets: Vec::new(),
@@ -55,8 +55,11 @@ impl ServerBuilder {
 
     /// Set number of workers to start.
     ///
-    /// By default server uses number of available logical CPU as workers count. Workers must be
-    /// greater than 0.
+    /// `num` must be greater than 0.
+    ///
+    /// The default worker count is the number of physical CPU cores available. If your benchmark
+    /// testing indicates that simultaneous multi-threading is beneficial to your app, you can use
+    /// the [`num_cpus`] crate to acquire the _logical_ core count instead.
     pub fn workers(mut self, num: usize) -> Self {
         assert_ne!(num, 0, "workers must be greater than 0");
         self.threads = num;
diff --git a/actix-server/src/worker.rs b/actix-server/src/worker.rs
index 0822ab7c..2fef9a7b 100644
--- a/actix-server/src/worker.rs
+++ b/actix-server/src/worker.rs
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ pub(crate) struct ServerWorkerConfig {
 impl Default for ServerWorkerConfig {
     fn default() -> Self {
         // 512 is the default max blocking thread count of tokio runtime.
-        let max_blocking_threads = std::cmp::max(512 / num_cpus::get(), 1);
+        let max_blocking_threads = std::cmp::max(512 / num_cpus::get_physical(), 1);
         Self {
             shutdown_timeout: Duration::from_secs(30),
             max_blocking_threads,