1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index 21fd93e58d..6e063dc14d 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -791,6 +791,9 @@ BB_NUMBER_THREADS ?= "${@oe.utils.cpu_count()}"
 # Default to setting automatically based on cpu count
 PARALLEL_MAKE ?= "-j ${@oe.utils.cpu_count()}"
 
+# Default parallelism and resource usage for xz
+XZ_DEFAULTS ?= "--memlimit=50% --threads=${@oe.utils.cpu_count()}"
+
 ##################################################################
 # Magic Cookie for SANITY CHECK
 ##################################################################