Limit Shader Compiler instances via setting or commandline

Unity Engine
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Not sure where to put this but it’s shader related and build related, so:
Could you add a way of limiting how many “Unity Shader Compiler” instances a build generates?
I am using my PC as a build machine while working in Editor in Parallel, and when the background builds hit shader compile stage it freezes up the whole computer for a few minutes and/or stutters really bad. Both bad when testing stuff in VR :slight_smile:
a % in via commandline would be the best since we could simply modify commands to use 50-75% of the CPU threads instead of all of em, which should make the PC usable while allowing builds at the same time.

Pav.

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Hi! We have it in the backlog :slight_smile:

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Nice, thanks for the update!

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I hope you work it back into earlier versions. I’m sitting at 8 hours and 1 minute so far, with 20 instances of the shader compiler eating up all my CPU (12 cores! all used up!). I hope it’s done by the time I get up in the morning.