diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/op/openmpCheckPhaseHook/omp-check-hook.sh b/pkgs/by-name/op/openmpCheckPhaseHook/omp-check-hook.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b3279b170360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/op/openmpCheckPhaseHook/omp-check-hook.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+preCheckHooks+=('setupOmpCheck')
+preInstallCheckHooks+=('setupOmpCheck')
+
+
+setupOmpCheck() {
+  # Limit number of OpenMP threads. Default is "all cores".
+  # Using all cores causes high load on builders if checks are executed with NIX_BUILD_CORE parallelism.
+  # This gets even worse if multiple builds are scheduled on the same machine, potentially growing O(n^3) without explicit core limits.
+  export OMP_NUM_THREADS="${OMP_NUM_THREADS:-1}"
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/op/openmpCheckPhaseHook/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/op/openmpCheckPhaseHook/package.nix
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index 000000000000..9e30609e8de5
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+++ b/pkgs/by-name/op/openmpCheckPhaseHook/package.nix
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+{
+  lib,
+  makeSetupHook,
+}:
+
+makeSetupHook {
+  name = "omp-checkPhase-hook";
+
+  __structuredAttrs = true;
+
+  meta.license = lib.licenses.mit;
+} ./omp-check-hook.sh