Disk Space Issue: Activating Huge list of Assets and Pages

[NitroHazeDev]

I am trying to activate around 18000 pages in aem programmatically, i see that it consumes 7gb disk space to complete activation, and i am assuming it would take even more for assets. Analysis was that  activation of 12700 pages take around 4gb disk space before running tar optimization

I have tried activating using activate tree, and it gives me the same results. Is it reasonable?

Is there any performance tuning that could help here? 

Please let me know

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

Here is a community article that may help:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qoBGtxU1UlWjyRiINIifPAzHU8-C-HjK2lBYsmg-Cbc/edit

An older KB:

http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/performancetuningtips.html

These are the topics that come up in the AEM docs. 

[NitroHazeDev]

Thanks Scott, the problem here is:

Creating pages, Asset upload , page activation and asset activation is part of a scheduled process. 

Since i am using 5.6.1, I have already focused on in the configurations in the document but in vain. Curious as to why the Activate Tree takes up 7gb -7.5 gb for 21MB of content.