diff --git a/utils/datasets.py b/utils/datasets.py
index 5a3b2110b2e0..79b871c9294b 100755
--- a/utils/datasets.py
+++ b/utils/datasets.py
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
 from utils.augmentations import Albumentations, augment_hsv, copy_paste, letterbox, mixup, random_perspective
-from utils.general import (LOGGER, check_dataset, check_requirements, check_yaml, clean_str, segments2boxes, xyn2xy,
-                           xywh2xyxy, xywhn2xyxy, xyxy2xywhn)
+from utils.general import (LOGGER, NUM_THREADS, check_dataset, check_requirements, check_yaml, clean_str,
+                           segments2boxes, xyn2xy, xywh2xyxy, xywhn2xyxy, xyxy2xywhn)
 from utils.torch_utils import torch_distributed_zero_first
 
 # Parameters
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 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
-NUM_THREADS = min(8, max(1, os.cpu_count() - 1))  # number of multiprocessing threads
 
 # Get orientation exif tag
 for orientation in ExifTags.TAGS.keys():
diff --git a/utils/general.py b/utils/general.py
index 6cc658cc3150..1da8a147510e 100755
--- a/utils/general.py
+++ b/utils/general.py
@@ -33,14 +33,15 @@
 from utils.metrics import box_iou, fitness
 
 # Settings
+FILE = Path(__file__).resolve()
+ROOT = FILE.parents[1]  # YOLOv5 root directory
+NUM_THREADS = min(8, max(1, os.cpu_count() - 1))  # number of YOLOv5 multiprocessing threads
+
 torch.set_printoptions(linewidth=320, precision=5, profile='long')
 np.set_printoptions(linewidth=320, formatter={'float_kind': '{:11.5g}'.format})  # format short g, %precision=5
 pd.options.display.max_columns = 10
 cv2.setNumThreads(0)  # prevent OpenCV from multithreading (incompatible with PyTorch DataLoader)
-os.environ['NUMEXPR_MAX_THREADS'] = str(min(os.cpu_count(), 8))  # NumExpr max threads
-
-FILE = Path(__file__).resolve()
-ROOT = FILE.parents[1]  # YOLOv5 root directory
+os.environ['NUMEXPR_MAX_THREADS'] = str(NUM_THREADS)  # NumExpr max threads
 
 
 def set_logging(name=None, verbose=True):