diff --git a/docs/running-distributed.rst b/docs/running-distributed.rst
index 2ed07a33de..7b3d341954 100644
--- a/docs/running-distributed.rst
+++ b/docs/running-distributed.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ It is really simple to launch a master and 4 worker processes::
 
     locust --processes 4
 
-You can even auto-detect the number of cores in your machine and launch one worker for each of them::
+You can even auto-detect the number of logical cores in your machine and launch one worker for each of them::
 
     locust --processes -1