more robust: imitate Isabelle/ML operation more closely (after 26a43785590b);
logical_cores is e.g. relevant for server-arm.sketis.net, where /proc/cpuinfo looks quite different;
/*  Title:      Pure/Concurrent/multithreading.scala
    Author:     Makarius
Multithreading in Isabelle/Scala.
*/
package isabelle
object Multithreading {
  /* physical processors */
  // slightly different from Poly/ML (more accurate)
  def num_processors(ssh: SSH.System = SSH.Local): Int =
    if (ssh.isabelle_platform.is_macos) {
      val result = ssh.execute("sysctl -n hw.physicalcpu").check
      Library.trim_line(result.out) match {
        case Value.Int(n) => n max 1
        case _ => 1
      }
    }
    else {
      val Physical = """^\s*physical id\s*:\s*(\d+)\s*$""".r
      val Cores = """^\s*cpu cores\s*:\s*(\d+)\s*$""".r
      val physical_cores: Int = {
        var physical: Option[Int] = None
        var cores = Map.empty[Int, Int]
        val result = ssh.execute("cat /proc/cpuinfo").check
        for (line <- Library.trim_split_lines(result.out)) {
          line match {
            case Physical(Value.Int(i)) => physical = Some(i)
            case Cores(Value.Int(i))
              if physical.isDefined && !cores.isDefinedAt(physical.get) =>
              cores = cores + (physical.get -> i)
            case _ =>
          }
        }
        cores.valuesIterator.sum
      }
      def logical_cores(): Int =
        if (ssh.is_local) Runtime.getRuntime.availableProcessors()
        else {
          Library.trim_line(ssh.execute("nproc").check.out) match {
            case Value.Nat(n) => n
            case _ => 1
          }
        }
      if (physical_cores > 0) physical_cores else logical_cores()
    }
  /* max_threads */
  def max_threads(
    value: Int = Value.Int.unapply(System.getProperty("isabelle.threads", "0")) getOrElse 0,
    default: => Int = num_processors()
  ): Int = {
    if (value > 0) value else (default max 1) min 8
  }
}