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by SushiHippie 757 days ago
Okay I looked it up, and the default is max-jobs=auto (uses # of logical cores) and cores=0 (each job can use all threads), so if I have a machine with 16 cores and 32 threads, it may run 32 jobs at the same time, where each job is allowed to use 32 threads.

See:

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=nix.s...

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&show=nix.s...

and

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/advanced-topics/cores-vs...