api / org.gradle.concurrent / ParallelismConfiguration / getMaxWorkerCount

getMaxWorkerCount

abstract fun getMaxWorkerCount(): Int

Returns the maximum number of concurrent workers used for underlying build operations. Workers can be threads, processes or whatever Gradle considers a "worker". Some examples:

A thread running a task
A test process
A language compiler in a forked process

Defaults to the number of processors available to the Java virtual machine.

Return
maximum number of concurrent workers, always >= 1.