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-rw-r--r--src/tarballer.rs6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/tarballer.rs b/src/tarballer.rs
index 9ff1bd2..fa6ab2c 100644
--- a/src/tarballer.rs
+++ b/src/tarballer.rs
@@ -47,9 +47,11 @@ impl Tarballer {
// Prepare the `.tar.gz` file.
let gz = GzEncoder::new(create_new_file(tar_gz)?, flate2::Compression::best());
- // Prepare the `.tar.xz` file.
+ // Prepare the `.tar.xz` file. Note that preset 6 takes about 173MB of memory
+ // per thread, so we limit the number of threads to not blow out 32-bit hosts.
+ // (We could be more precise with `MtStreamBuilder::memusage()` if desired.)
let stream = xz2::stream::MtStreamBuilder::new()
- .threads(num_cpus::get() as u32)
+ .threads(Ord::min(num_cpus::get(), 8) as u32)
.preset(6)
.encoder()?;
let xz = XzEncoder::new_stream(create_new_file(tar_xz)?, stream);