C++ How to limit visual studios multi-processor compilation

Question

Every time I compile using visual studio the rest of my computer crawls because visual studio is hogging all the processors. Is there a way to limit the number of processors tha

Answer 1

For C++ Use

*msbuild /p:CL_MPCount=X 

Where X is the number of compiler driver. I use this to limit the CPU utilization when compiling the Tensorflow source code.

Read this for more details: ms's blog on vs2010 c++ parallel building