After the release of AEM 6 and introduction of TarMK, operation teams has faced rapid growth in the size of repository due to a know oak bug for which adobe has already provided a hotfix Oak-core 1.0.25. But after installing this hotfix also it is becoming difficult to maintain or pause the rapid growth of repository. So, adobe come up with two housekeeping activities online and offline tar compaction to control the size of aem repository. Adobe strongly suggest not to use online tar compaction as it takes very long time for compacting repository and affect the performance of site.
Is your repository size increasing very rapidly ? Looking for step by step guide on how to run online and offline tar compaction in aem ? Then this tutorial is for you
Read more at AEMCQ5Tutorials: Run Online and Offline Tar Compaction in AEM
regards,
Ankur Ahlawat