diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e9845ff1..479bea6b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ master
 - fix 8 bit pallete PNG save [lovell]
 - fix null string in buffer print [pclewis]
 - revise caching of seq mode loaders [jcupitt]
+- reduce latency on dzsave kill [kleisauke]
 
 24/7/22 started 8.13.1
 - fix im7 feature detection in meson
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/dzsave.c b/libvips/foreign/dzsave.c
index 61821120..5b3fd713 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/dzsave.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/dzsave.c
@@ -1828,6 +1828,12 @@ strip_work( VipsThreadState *state, void *a )
 	printf( "strip_work\n" );
 #endif /*DEBUG_VERBOSE*/
 
+        /* killed is checked by sink_disc, but that's only once per strip, and
+         * they can be huge. Check per output tile as well.
+         */
+	if( vips_image_iskilled( save->in ) )
+		return( -1 );
+
 	/* If we are centering we may be outside the real pixels. Skip in 
 	 * this case, and the viewer will display blank.png for us. 
 	 */