Please test --compress

[Ole Tange]

GNU Parallel caches stdout/stderr output from your jobs in temporary
files in $TMPDIR.

If your jobs generate loads of output on stdout/stderr the files in
$TMPDIR can grow big.

With --compress you can ask GNU Parallel to compress them on the fly
thus giving less disk I/O; and with --compress-program you can decide
with program GNU Parallel should used for the compression.

Give it a spin and provide some feedback.

  git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/parallel.git

/Ole