AEM TAR Offline Compaction

Disclaimer:

This is just a custom guide to run compaction on AEM Author/Publish service  on remote windows server, this could be more technical and advanced guide, if you do not understand or don’t know what you are doing, I kindly request you to take extreme caution. The components used here are billable. SKYDEVOPS/I/WE do not take any responsibility if the guide causes any serious damage or issues, which you have to take full responsibility.

Step-01: Oak-run

1. Download Oak-run JAR form here

Step-02: Create a file logback-compaction.xml (on the server)

Step-03: AEM OAK offline Compaction on Linux, Unix and MacOS systems

# Linux, Unix

sudo -u crx nohup java -Dtar.memoryMapped=true
-Doak.compaction.eagerFlush=true -server -Xmx30g
-Dcompaction-progress-log=5000000
-Dlogback.configurationFile=logback-compaction.xml
-Dcompress-interval=150000000
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:HeapDumpPath=/path/to/dumps
-jar oak-run-1.6.1.jar
compact /path/to/segmentstore >> oak-tar-compact.log
2>>oak-tar-error.log

# Windows Machines

java -server -Xmx3g "-Dsun.arch.data.model=32
-Doak.compaction.eagerFlush=true
-Dcompaction-progress-log=5000000
-Dupdate.limit=2500000
-Dlogback.configurationFile=C:logback-compaction.xml
-Dcompress-interval=150000000"
-jar C:compactionoak-run-1.6.1.jar
compact C:crx-quickstartrepositorysegmentstore
>> C:compactionoak-tar-compact.log