(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #3) > %build > +# try to avoid OOM on ppc64 (boo#1194739) > +%ifarch ppc64 ppc64le > +%limit_build -m 12000 > +%endif That will mean it claims 'build as much parallel as you can, assuming 12G memory per thread' with such a high number this will be static equivalent to -j 1 (we have probably not a single worker with > 24GB of RAM in the PPC pool) Is that really what you mean to do?