# Physical Cores vs Logical Cores for ES nodes capacity planning

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/physical-cores-vs-logical-cores-for-es-nodes-capacity-planning/200211>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 19, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/physical-cores-vs-logical-cores-for-es-nodes-capacity-planning/200211 "2019-09-19T13:46:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ParashB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@ParashB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ParashB)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/physical-cores-vs-logical-cores-for-es-nodes-capacity-planning/200211/1 "2019-09-19T13:46:33Z")

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I have a hyper threaded environment wherein each physical core is equivalent to 2 Logical cores. Should I consider physical cores or logical cores for my elastic search nodes capacity planning?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/physical-cores-vs-logical-cores-for-es-nodes-capacity-planning/200211/2 "2019-10-17T13:46:47Z")

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