what do I need to do to get gradle to use more than 4 workers? I tried `--max-workers=12` but it di...

# gradle

[Jonathan Ellis]

what do I need to do to get gradle to use more than 4 workers? I tried --max-workers=12 but it did not change

[Chris Lee]

that is the correct option. how are you determining the number of workers?

[Chris Lee]

*`org.gradle.workers.max=(max # of worker processes)` in gradle.pr*operties is the persistent equivalent.

[Jonathan Ellis]

I have a 12-core, 24-thread CPU so I figured 12 would be a good starting point

[Chris Lee]

if you don’t specify anything Gradle will use the number of CPUs as the default

[Chris Lee]

note, however, that workers only come into play largely for parallel task execution. Without configuration cache enables, that would be tasks in separate projects running in parallel. Configuration cache allows all tasks to run in parallel.

[Jonathan Ellis]

that would be nice, it's definitely not doing that tho. it shows 4 slots that are all busy but never goes to more than 4

[Jonathan Ellis]

build.gradle isn't setting workers

[Jonathan Ellis]

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[Jonathan Ellis]

oh ho

[Jonathan Ellis]

it's git-bash's fault

[Chris Lee]

lol. often is!

[Jonathan Ellis]

when i run gradlew.bat from cmd then i get 12 workers

[Chris Lee]

good stuff!