diff --git a/core/linux-cubox/PKGBUILD b/core/linux-cubox/PKGBUILD
index 2b95daa19..8e5c80256 100644
--- a/core/linux-cubox/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/linux-cubox/PKGBUILD
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ package_linux-cubox() {
   # remove the firmware
   rm -rf "${pkgdir}/lib/firmware"
   # gzip -9 all modules to save 100MB of space
-  find "${pkgdir}" -name '*.ko' -exec gzip -9 {} \;
+  find "${pkgdir}" -name '*.ko' |xargs -P 2 -n 1 gzip -9
   # make room for external modules
   ln -s "../extramodules-${pkgver}-${_kernelname:-ARCH}" "${pkgdir}/lib/modules/${_kernver}/extramodules"
   # add real version for building modules and running depmod from post_install/upgrade