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src/services/imageCrop.js

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Worker } from 'worker_threads';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
+import os from 'os';
 
 const FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS = 15000;
 const MAX_BYTES = 50 * 1024 * 1024; // 50MB
@@ -12,9 +13,13 @@ const MAX_BYTES = 50 * 1024 * 1024; // 50MB
 const WORKER_PATH = fileURLToPath(new URL('./imageCropWorker.js', import.meta.url));
 const WORKER_BOOT_TIMEOUT_MS = 15000;
 const DEFAULT_JOB_TIMEOUT_MS = 30000;
-// libvips keeps its own warm thread pool per process, so one worker per CPU is
+// libvips already saturates cores via its own per-process thread pool, so each worker
-// plenty; sharp's internal concurrency is what actually saturates a worker.
+// is mostly IO/decode-bound rather than needing one thread per core. Cap at 3 to stay
-const POOL_SIZE = Math.max(1, Math.min(4, (process.availableParallelism?.() ?? 2) - 1));
+// conservative on memory (each in-flight image can be tens of MB) while still covering
+// the realistic burst. NOTE: use os.cpus(), not process.availableParallelism() — that
+// helper is absent on some supported Node builds and silently collapsed this to 1.
+const CPU_COUNT = Math.max(1, os.cpus?.()?.length || os.availableParallelism?.() || 2);
+const POOL_SIZE = Math.max(1, Math.min(3, CPU_COUNT - 1));
 
 /** @type {Array<{ worker: Worker, busy: boolean, id: number }>} */
 const pool = [];