diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 678e33d..b9a026c 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
     - SRC_DIR="."
     - BUILD_DIR="."
     - BASE_CONFIG="--disable-docs --disable-tools"
-    - TEST_CMD="make check -j3 V=1"
+    - TEST_CMD="make check V=1"
     # This is broadly a list of "mainline" softmmu targets which have support across the major distros
     - MAIN_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="aarch64-softmmu,arm-softmmu,i386-softmmu,mips-softmmu,mips64-softmmu,ppc64-softmmu,riscv64-softmmu,s390x-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu"
     - CCACHE_SLOPPINESS="include_file_ctime,include_file_mtime"