xz

Multiprocessor (multithreading) compression support was added to xz in version 5.2, in December 2014. To enable the functionality, add the -T option, along with either the number of worker threads to spawn, or -T0 to spawn as many CPU’s as the OS reports: xz -T0 big.tar xz -T4 bigish.tar The default single threaded operation is … Read more