docs: add single node concurrent build example (#20416)

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@ -1864,14 +1864,21 @@ of ``mpich`` using the following command:
$ srun -N 2 -n 8 spack install -j 4 mpich@3.3.2
This will create eight concurrent four-job installation on two different
This will create eight concurrent, four-job installs on two different
nodes.
Alternatively, you could run the same installs on one node by entering
the following at the command line of a bash shell:
.. code-block:: console
$ for i in {1..12}; do nohup spack install -j 4 mpich@3.3.2 >> mpich_install.txt 2>&1 &; done
.. note::
The effective parallelism will be based on the maximum number of
packages that can be installed at the same time, which will limited
by the number of packages with no (remaining) uninstalled dependencies.
The effective parallelism is based on the maximum number of packages
that can be installed at the same time, which is limited by the
number of packages with no (remaining) uninstalled dependencies.
.. _dependencies: