diff --git a/aegisub.changes b/aegisub.changes
index 59970b1..f943ff8 100644
--- a/aegisub.changes
+++ b/aegisub.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Mar  4 18:51:25 UTC 2014 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- disable parallel make - it takes too much memory and OBS swaps
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 23 14:43:50 UTC 2014 - reddwarf@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/aegisub.spec b/aegisub.spec
index cf055cb..8f799b1 100644
--- a/aegisub.spec
+++ b/aegisub.spec
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ autoreconf -fi
 # Don't use --disable-update-checker because of http://blog.aegisub.org/2012/02/bit-of-statistics.html
 %configure --with-player-audio=PulseAudio \
            --without-oss
-make %{?_smp_mflags}
+# parallel make takes too much memory 
+make -j1
 
 %install
 cd aegisub