How to use Pigz with Tar

Question

So I am using pigz in tar with

tar --use-compress-program=pigz

and this works but it doesn\'t use all of my processors, and I\'d like to make s

Answer 1

Mark Adler's top voted answer on the SO link that you included in your question does provide a solution for specifying compression-level as well as number of processors to use:

tar cf - paths-to-archive | pigz -9 -p 32 > archive.tar.gz

See : https://stackoverflow.com/a/12320421