diff --git a/utils/datasets.py b/utils/datasets.py
index 8159c3dcf264..96f05afe508e 100755
--- a/utils/datasets.py
+++ b/utils/datasets.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 HELP_URL = 'https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5/wiki/Train-Custom-Data'
 IMG_FORMATS = ['bmp', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'tif', 'tiff', 'dng', 'webp', 'mpo']  # acceptable image suffixes
 VID_FORMATS = ['mov', 'avi', 'mp4', 'mpg', 'mpeg', 'm4v', 'wmv', 'mkv']  # acceptable video suffixes
-WORLD_SIZE = int(os.getenv('WORLD_SIZE', 1))  # DPP
+DEVICE_COUNT = max(torch.cuda.device_count(), 1)
 
 # Get orientation exif tag
 for orientation in ExifTags.TAGS.keys():
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ def create_dataloader(path, imgsz, batch_size, stride, single_cls=False, hyp=Non
                                       prefix=prefix)
 
     batch_size = min(batch_size, len(dataset))
-    nw = min([os.cpu_count() // WORLD_SIZE, batch_size if batch_size > 1 else 0, workers])  # number of workers
+    nw = min([os.cpu_count() // DEVICE_COUNT, batch_size if batch_size > 1 else 0, workers])  # number of workers
     sampler = None if rank == -1 else distributed.DistributedSampler(dataset, shuffle=shuffle)
     loader = DataLoader if image_weights else InfiniteDataLoader  # only DataLoader allows for attribute updates
     return loader(dataset,