diff --git a/src/builder.rs b/src/builder.rs
index 5ff39fb..d5ca571 100644
--- a/src/builder.rs
+++ b/src/builder.rs
@@ -551,7 +551,8 @@ pub struct IsoBuilder {
 
 const DR_MODS: &str = "livenet dmsquash-live dmsquash-live-ntfs convertfs pollcdrom qemu qemu-net";
 const DR_OMIT: &str = "";
-const DR_ARGS: &str = "--xz --no-early-microcode";
+const DR_ARGS: &str =
+	"--xz --no-early-microcode --strip --aggressive-strip --compress=zstd -20 -q -T0";
 
 impl IsoBuilder {
 	fn dracut(&self, root: &Path) -> Result<()> {