Unfortunately not. "--jobs N" limits the parallelism during the execution phase (when Bazel executes compilers, etc.) but doesn't limit the parallelism of the

Unfortunately not. "--jobs N" limits the parallelism during the execution phase (when Bazel executes compilers, etc.) but doesn't limit the parallelism of the analysis phase (when Bazel loads BUILD files and constructs the build graph). For the latter there is a "--loading_phase_threads N" flag. We are actively trying to make Bazel better use the local resources, and also clean up the current mess that the flags are in this area. See the discussion at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bazel-dev/7pcrJY6Xo78/JDe256-tBQAJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bazel-dev/7pcrJY6Xo78/JDe256... for some context.