diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index ab55cf38b..2fd5e9b7f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ before_script:
   - ./configure_ubuntu_12.04.sh
 # for some tests  
   - sudo locale-gen de_DE && sudo locale-gen zh_CN.utf8
-  - HPHP_HOME=`pwd` make -j `grep -c '^processor' /proc/cpuinfo`
+  - HPHP_HOME=`pwd` make -j 8
   
 script: hphp/hhvm/hhvm hphp/test/run --arg quick slow zend