diff --git a/scripts/usage_compressed b/scripts/usage_compressed
index 59e93e669..8e2228af2 100644
--- a/scripts/usage_compressed
+++ b/scripts/usage_compressed
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ test "$loc" || loc=.
 test -x "$loc/usage" || exit 1
 
 echo 'static const char packed_usage[] = '
-"$loc"/usage | bzip2 -9 | od -v -t x1 \
+"$loc"/usage | bzip2 -1 | od -v -t x1 \
 | $SED -e 's/^[^ ]*//' -e 's/ \(..\)/\\x\1/g' -e 's/^\(.*\)$/"\1"/' || exit 1
 echo ';'
 sz=`"$loc"/usage | wc -c` || exit 1