diff --git a/mkinitcpio.conf b/mkinitcpio.conf
index c03540a..60c328e 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio.conf
+++ b/mkinitcpio.conf
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ MODULES=(fuse)
 BINARIES=(aq jq mount.ntfs)
 HOOKS=(base udev memdisk findroot archiso archiso_loop_mnt archiso_pxe_common archiso_pxe_nbd archiso_pxe_http archiso_pxe_nfs archiso_kms block mdadm_udev modconf encrypt lvm2 filesystems keyboard)
 COMPRESSION="xz"
+COMPRESSION_OPTIONS="--threads=0 --lzma2=preset=9e,dict=128MiB --verbose"