diff --git a/cmd/influxd/main.go b/cmd/influxd/main.go
index 890a9d0531..ce40a51902 100644
--- a/cmd/influxd/main.go
+++ b/cmd/influxd/main.go
@@ -74,13 +74,11 @@ func main() {
 	case "":
 		execRun(args)
 	case "backup":
-		setGoMaxProcs()
 		cmd := NewBackupCommand()
 		if err := cmd.Run(args[1:]...); err != nil {
 			log.Fatalf("backup: %s", err)
 		}
 	case "restore":
-		setGoMaxProcs()
 		cmd := NewRestoreCommand()
 		if err := cmd.Run(args[1:]...); err != nil {
 			log.Fatalf("restore: %s", err)
@@ -96,12 +94,6 @@ func main() {
 	}
 }
 
-func setGoMaxProcs() {
-	// Set parallelism.
-	runtime.GOMAXPROCS(runtime.NumCPU())
-	log.Printf("GOMAXPROCS set to %d", runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0))
-}
-
 // execRun runs the "run" command.
 func execRun(args []string) {
 	// Parse command flags.
@@ -125,7 +117,9 @@ func execRun(args []string) {
 	fmt.Print(logo)
 	writePIDFile(*pidPath)
 
-	setGoMaxProcs()
+	// Set parallelism.
+	runtime.GOMAXPROCS(runtime.NumCPU())
+	log.Printf("GOMAXPROCS set to %d", runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0))
 
 	// Parse configuration file from disk.
 	config, err := parseConfig(*configPath, *hostname)