Limit parallel builds forked by IDE

Sorry for my old school gcc'ish args sir. I reached for what I knew, the Arduino IDE is a proprietary (tho free) JAVA blob to me.

The IDE or its underlings get into a forkfest. I'm on a standard pi3. 4 rocking ARM cores, 1G RAM.

How do I prove from the CLI the IDE goes nuts? let me try...

leem@testpi:~ $ grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo 
4
leem@testpi:~ $ head -1 /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:         948308 kB
leem@testpi:~ $ uname -a
Linux testpi 4.19.50-v7+ #896 SMP Thu Jun 20 16:11:44 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux
leem@testpi:~ $ 


So a typical pi3b running debian buster. 

Load Blink.ino posted earlier into IDE.  Press complile...

leem@testpi:~ $ /opt/arduino-1.8.9/arduino &
[1] 2981
leem@testpi:~ $ Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: 
while [ 1 ] ; do date ; ps -ef | grep -c cc1plus; sleep 1; done
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Warning: Board Breadboard Arduino:avr:atmega328bb doesn't define a 'build.board' preference. Auto-set to: AVR_ATMEGA328BB
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HANG FOREVER, Find the power cord.... Last I checked i had 4 cores,not ~40.

It's repeatable, but 1.8.5 is rocking hard for me on same OS, sketch, etc.

Lee