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-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi2
-rw-r--r--nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 4edaa922e1..f313ba5db4 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ Cache build failures.  By default, only successful builds are cached.
 Use @var{n} CPU cores to build each derivation; @code{0} means as many
 as available.
 
-The default value is @code{1}, but it may be overridden by clients, such
+The default value is @code{0}, but it may be overridden by clients, such
 as the @code{--cores} option of @command{guix build} (@pxref{Invoking
 guix build}).
 
diff --git a/nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc b/nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc
index d1d4541971..3cca120755 100644
--- a/nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc
+++ b/nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc
@@ -264,6 +264,9 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
   /* Turn automatic deduplication on by default.  */
   settings.autoOptimiseStore = true;
 
+  /* Default to using as many cores as possible.  */
+  settings.buildCores = 0;
+
   argvSaved = argv;
 
   try