diff --git a/man/pylint.1 b/man/pylint.1
index 6f644efef..9341ed435 100644
--- a/man/pylint.1
+++ b/man/pylint.1
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Pickle collected data for later comparisons. [current: yes]
 .IP "--load-plugins=<modules>"
 List of plugins (as comma separated values of python modules names) to load, usually to register additional checkers. [current: none]
 .IP "--jobs=<n-processes>, -j <n-processes>"
-Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. [current: 1]
+Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will auto-detect the number of processors available to use. [current: 1]
 .IP "--extension-pkg-whitelist=<pkg[,pkg]>"
 A comma-separated list of package or module names from where C extensions may be loaded. Extensions are loading into the active Python interpreter and may run arbitrary code [current: none]
 
diff --git a/pylint/lint.py b/pylint/lint.py
index 893357570..f4efe4e84 100644
--- a/pylint/lint.py
+++ b/pylint/lint.py
@@ -398,7 +398,8 @@ class PyLinter(config.OptionsManagerMixIn,
                  {'type' : 'int', 'metavar': '<n-processes>',
                   'short': 'j',
                   'default': 1,
-                  'help' : '''Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint.''',
+                  'help' : 'Use multiple processes to speed up Pylint. Specifying 0 will '
+                           'auto-detect the number of processors available to use.',
                  }),
 
                 ('unsafe-load-any-extension',