Make -j on run_tests work as expected

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tools/run_tests/run_tests.py b/tools/run_tests/run_tests.py
index 1f94238a50..452e1c47e9 100755
--- a/tools/run_tests/run_tests.py
+++ b/tools/run_tests/run_tests.py
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ class SimpleConfig(object):
     if environ is None:
       environ = {}
     self.build_config = config
-    self.maxjobs = 2 * multiprocessing.cpu_count()
     self.allow_hashing = (config != 'gcov')
     self.environ = environ
     self.environ['CONFIG'] = config
@@ -92,7 +91,6 @@ class ValgrindConfig(object):
     self.build_config = config
     self.tool = tool
     self.args = args
-    self.maxjobs = 2 * multiprocessing.cpu_count()
     self.allow_hashing = False
 
   def job_spec(self, cmdline, hash_targets):
@@ -332,7 +330,7 @@ argp.add_argument('-c', '--config',
                   default=_DEFAULT)
 argp.add_argument('-n', '--runs_per_test', default=1, type=int)
 argp.add_argument('-r', '--regex', default='.*', type=str)
-argp.add_argument('-j', '--jobs', default=1000, type=int)
+argp.add_argument('-j', '--jobs', default=2 * multiprocessing.cpu_count(), type=int)
 argp.add_argument('-s', '--slowdown', default=1.0, type=float)
 argp.add_argument('-f', '--forever',
                   default=False,
@@ -449,7 +447,7 @@ def _build_and_run(check_cancelled, newline_on_success, travis, cache):
       itertools.repeat(one_run, runs_per_test))
   if not jobset.run(all_runs, check_cancelled,
                     newline_on_success=newline_on_success, travis=travis,
-                    maxjobs=min(args.jobs, min(c.maxjobs for c in run_configs)),
+                    maxjobs=args.jobs,
                     cache=cache):
     return 2