[Nix-dev] nix.maxJobs not working for system env?

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Thu Mar 1 14:39:06 CET 2012


Excerpts from Mathijs Kwik's message of Thu Mar 01 11:19:25 +0100 2012:
> However, when running nixos-rebuild to build the system profile, it's
> always just 1.
Not all jobs can be run in parallel.

nixos-rebuild accepts -j X options (mind the space) AFAIK.

Check /etc/nix/nix.conf and $NIX_CONF_DIR (being root) which should
point to /etc/nix

same var should be exported in /etc/nix/nix.conf

That's all I know which might help you.

Marc Weber


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