diff --git a/multithread_script_5.0.py b/multithread_script_5.0.py
index 8a2b55d..ab982f3 100644
--- a/multithread_script_5.0.py
+++ b/multithread_script_5.0.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def extract_urls_from_directory(directory_path):
 
     # Create a multiprocessing Pool with the number of processes
     # based on the available CPU cores
-    pool = Pool(processes=12)
+    pool = Pool(processes=16)
 
     # Map the file processing function to the list of files
     pool.map(process_file, [os.path.join(directory_path, filename) for filename in file_list if filename.endswith('.wat.gz')])