According to following two benchmarks:
xz has better compression ratio than bzip2 at lowest compression rate.
https://github.com/vasi/pixz has been chosen as it can scale compressing over multiple cores linearly.
We're using this in snabblab for a month now and it has improved CPU wise the main Hydra server.
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