diff --git a/jieba/__init__.py b/jieba/__init__.py
index 0ee4320..ac5f61f 100644
--- a/jieba/__init__.py
+++ b/jieba/__init__.py
@@ -292,8 +292,10 @@ def __lcut_all(sentence):
 def __lcut_for_search(sentence):
     return list(__ref_cut_for_search(sentence))
 
+import multiprocessing
+
 @require_initialized
-def enable_parallel(processnum):
+def enable_parallel(processnum=multiprocessing.cpu_count()):
     global pool,cut,cut_for_search
     if os.name=='nt':
         raise Exception("jieba: parallel mode only supports posix system")