elif [[ ${CI_TAGS} == *'acceptance-tests'* ]];
then
EXTRA_CONF_FLAGS="${EXTRA_CONF_FLAGS} --prefix=${WORKSPACE}/tmp/mono-acceptance-tests --with-sgen-default-concurrent=yes";
-elif [[ ${label} != w* ]] && [[ ${label} != 'debian-ppc64el' ]] && [[ ${label} != 'centos-s390x' ]] && [[ ${CI_TAGS} != *'monolite'* ]];
+elif [[ ${label} != w* ]] && [[ ${label} != 'debian-8-ppc64el' ]] && [[ ${label} != 'centos-s390x' ]] && [[ ${CI_TAGS} != *'monolite'* ]];
then
# Override the defaults to skip profiles
# only enable the mobile profiles and mobile_static on the main architectures
if [[ ${CI_TAGS} == *'monolite'* ]]; then make get-monolite-latest; fi
-${TESTCMD} --label=make --timeout=300m --fatal make -j4 -w V=1
+make_parallelism=-j4
+if [[ ${label} == 'debian-8-ppc64el' ]]; then make_parallelism=-j1; fi
+
+${TESTCMD} --label=make --timeout=300m --fatal make ${make_parallelism} -w V=1
if [[ ${CI_TAGS} == *'acceptance-tests'* ]];
then