Is there a way to limit the number of CPU cores Bazel uses?

Question

Is there a way to tell Bazel when building how many CPU cores it can use?

TL;DR

I build TensorFlow on a VMware Workstation and being a virtual machine I can ad

Answer 1

some examples for your .bazelrc

build --local_ram_resources=HOST_RAM*.5 --local_cpu_resources=HOST_CPUS-1 (leave one core free)

or

build --local_cpu_resources=1 (use a single core)

See https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/command-line-reference.html#flag--local_cpu_resources

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