Merge pull request #5731

FINERACT-2421: Maximize parallel gradle workers

Author: adamsaghy

gradle.properties

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx12g --add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api=AL
 buildType=BUILD
 org.gradle.caching=true
 org.gradle.parallel=true
+# Keep worker concurrency below CPU count to avoid heap spikes from parallel project tasks
+# and forked Java compilation running alongside Avro code generation.
+org.gradle.workers.max=4
 org.gradle.daemon.idletimeout=10800000
 # Temporarily disabled until we fix configuration cache compatibility
 #org.gradle.configuration-cache=true