From ca8c0382efddd589fee5c896ca2f60884fafa73f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.hoste@ugent.be>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 07:26:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] use max. 6 cores for building libxc on A64FX, to increase
 available memory per core

---
 eb_hooks.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/eb_hooks.py b/eb_hooks.py
index 5cb26a4f..3c93a046 100644
--- a/eb_hooks.py
+++ b/eb_hooks.py
@@ -2032,7 +2032,7 @@ def set_maximum(parallel, max_value):
     # software-specific limits
     'libxc': {
         '*': (divide_by_factor, 2),
-        CPU_TARGET_A64FX: (set_maximum, 12),
+        CPU_TARGET_A64FX: (set_maximum, 6),
     },
     'LLVM': {
         '*': (divide_by_factor, 2),