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greyscaled · greyscaled · commit defb07078640 · 2022-03-18T06:04:27.000Z
diff --git a/site/jest.config.js b/site/jest.config.js
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+// REMARK: Jest is supposed to never exceed 50% maxWorkers by default. However,
+//         there seems to be an issue with this in our Ubuntu-based workspaces.
+//         If we don't limit it, then 100% CPU and high MEM usage is hit
+//         unexpectedly, leading to OOM kills.
+//
+// SEE thread: https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/483#discussion_r829636583
 const maxWorkers = process.env.CI ? 16 : 2
 
 module.exports = {
