Respect Linux cgroup CPU number for --threads value (#2083)

We want to respect cgroup constraints so that when we run in a container, we respect the limits set for the container rather than use the host OS's number of cores. We check both `/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset.cpus.effective` (`cgroup v2`) and `/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset.cpus` (`cgroup v1`) to find the number of cores available. We also check `sys/fs/cgroup/cpu.max` (v1, v2) to calculate the number of cores from the limits set in this file. The max threads value is set to the minimum of these values, and if no values were found in these files, we default to the original value of the host OS.
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-No user facing changes.
+- On Linux, the maximum possible value for the `--threads` option now respects the CPU count as specified in `cgroup` files to more accurately reflect the number of available cores when running in containers. 
 
 ## 3.23.1 - 17 Jan 2024
 

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