diff --git a/metadata/layout.conf b/metadata/layout.conf
index 393f0d5..4d0281a 100644
--- a/metadata/layout.conf
+++ b/metadata/layout.conf
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 masters = gentoo
-profile-formats = portage-2
+profile-formats = portage-2 profile-bashrcs
diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/half_parallell.rc b/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/half_parallell.rc
index 2a5e23a..cb168ef 100644
--- a/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/half_parallell.rc
+++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/half_parallell.rc
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 nr_cpu=$(lscpu -p | egrep -v '^#' | wc -l)
-export MAKEOPTS="-j$(( ${nr_cpu}/2 ))"
+ewarn "Reducing parallelism to ${nr_cpu} processes"
+export MAKEOPTS="-j$(( ${nr_cpu}/2 )) -l$(( ${nr_cpu}/4 ))"
diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/no_parallell.rc b/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/no_parallell.rc
index 2c740b7..ee347d8 100644
--- a/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/no_parallell.rc
+++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/no_parallell.rc
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export MAKEOPTS="-j1"
+export MAKEOPTS="-j1 -l1"