diff --git a/src/prune.rs b/src/prune.rs
index 200b16b..ea794bb 100644
--- a/src/prune.rs
+++ b/src/prune.rs
@@ -135,42 +135,89 @@ pub fn format_bytes(bytes: u64) -> String {
     }
 }
 
-/// Total size of `path` in bytes: a file's length, or the recursive walk
-/// of a directory. Unreadable entries count as zero — prune removes them
-/// all the same. The walk never crosses a mount point (`du -x`): residual
-/// chroots hold bind-mounted `/proc` and overlay filesystems whose virtual
-/// files (`/proc/kcore` alone reports 128 TiB) would poison the total.
-fn path_bytes(path: &Path) -> u64 {
+/// Total size of every artifact in bytes, measured concurrently: the
+/// records hold hundreds of thousands of files (a single kernel build
+/// tree is ~100 GB of objects), and a serial walk costs tens of seconds.
+///
+/// Directory walks never cross a mount point (`du -x`): residual chroots
+/// hold bind-mounted `/proc` and overlay filesystems whose virtual files
+/// (`/proc/kcore` alone reports 128 TiB) would poison the totals.
+/// Unreadable entries count as zero — prune removes them all the same.
+fn size_artifacts(artifacts: &[&Artifact]) -> Vec<u64> {
+    use std::collections::VecDeque;
     use std::os::unix::fs::MetadataExt;
+    use std::sync::Mutex;
+    use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU64, AtomicUsize, Ordering};
 
-    let Ok(meta) = fs::symlink_metadata(path) else {
-        return 0;
-    };
-    if !meta.is_dir() {
-        return meta.len();
-    }
-    let root_dev = meta.dev();
-    let mut total = 0;
-    let mut stack = vec![path.to_path_buf()];
-    while let Some(dir) = stack.pop() {
-        let Ok(entries) = fs::read_dir(&dir) else {
-            continue;
-        };
-        for entry in entries.flatten() {
-            let path = entry.path();
-            let Ok(meta) = fs::symlink_metadata(&path) else {
-                continue;
-            };
-            if meta.is_dir() {
-                if meta.dev() == root_dev {
-                    stack.push(path);
+    // The device each artifact lives on: the walk descends only into
+    // directories on the same device.
+    let root_devs: Vec<u64> = artifacts
+        .iter()
+        .map(|a| fs::symlink_metadata(a.path()).map_or(0, |meta| meta.dev()))
+        .collect();
+
+    let totals: Vec<AtomicU64> = (0..artifacts.len()).map(|_| AtomicU64::new(0)).collect();
+    let queue: Mutex<VecDeque<(usize, PathBuf)>> = Mutex::new(
+        artifacts
+            .iter()
+            .enumerate()
+            .map(|(idx, artifact)| (idx, artifact.path().to_path_buf()))
+            .collect(),
+    );
+    // Every queued-but-unfinished item: the workers stop when the queue
+    // is empty and nothing is in flight.
+    let pending = AtomicUsize::new(artifacts.len());
+
+    let workers = std::thread::available_parallelism()
+        .map(|n| n.get())
+        .unwrap_or(4)
+        .min(16);
+    std::thread::scope(|scope| {
+        for _ in 0..workers {
+            scope.spawn(|| {
+                loop {
+                    let item = queue.lock().unwrap().pop_front();
+                    let Some((idx, path)) = item else {
+                        if pending.load(Ordering::Acquire) == 0 {
+                            return;
+                        }
+                        std::thread::yield_now();
+                        continue;
+                    };
+
+                    let Ok(meta) = fs::symlink_metadata(&path) else {
+                        pending.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel);
+                        continue;
+                    };
+                    if !meta.is_dir() {
+                        totals[idx].fetch_add(meta.len(), Ordering::Relaxed);
+                        pending.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel);
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    let Ok(entries) = fs::read_dir(&path) else {
+                        pending.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel);
+                        continue;
+                    };
+                    for entry in entries.flatten() {
+                        let child = entry.path();
+                        let Ok(meta) = fs::symlink_metadata(&child) else {
+                            continue;
+                        };
+                        let same_device = meta.dev() == root_devs[idx];
+                        if meta.is_dir() && same_device {
+                            pending.fetch_add(1, Ordering::AcqRel);
+                            queue.lock().unwrap().push_back((idx, child));
+                        } else if !meta.is_dir() && same_device {
+                            totals[idx].fetch_add(meta.len(), Ordering::Relaxed);
+                        }
+                    }
+                    pending.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::AcqRel);
                 }
-            } else {
-                total += meta.len();
-            }
+            });
         }
-    }
-    total
+    });
+
+    totals.into_iter().map(|total| total.into_inner()).collect()
 }
 
 /// Number of newest build logs kept when `--all` is not passed.
@@ -759,7 +806,7 @@ pub fn prune_in_roots(
 
     // The actionable subset with sizes measured BEFORE anything is
     // removed: a removed tree has no size left to report.
-    let mut actionable: Vec<(&Artifact, u64)> = Vec::new();
+    let mut filtered: Vec<&Artifact> = Vec::new();
     for artifact in &artifacts {
         // Cached tarballs are only removed when --all is requested: they are
         // expensive to re-download.
@@ -774,12 +821,14 @@ pub fn prune_in_roots(
             continue;
         }
 
-        actionable.push((artifact, path_bytes(artifact.path())));
+        filtered.push(artifact);
     }
+    let sizes = size_artifacts(&filtered);
+    let actionable: Vec<(&Artifact, u64)> = filtered.iter().copied().zip(sizes).collect();
 
     for (artifact, _) in &actionable {
         let path = artifact.path();
-        log::info!("{}: {}", artifact.kind(), path.display());
+        log::debug!("{}: {}", artifact.kind(), path.display());
 
         if options.dry_run {
             report.removed.push(path.to_path_buf());