AEM6 Segment Store Size
On a dev server where I have an AEM6 project running I noticed a weird message on the logs and the author instance wasn't starting up correctly.
After doing some system health check I noticed the hard drive space was close to be full. This was weird since the only active project on the server was the AEM6 project.
I started checking where the HD space was being dragged and noticed that the size of the segmentstore folder (../crx-quickstart/repository/segmentstore/) was huge.
After some research I found an Adobe link on how to reduce/compact the size of the segment store which, off course, shouldn't be that big. I followed the manual offline compaction process using the 'oak-run-1.0.8.jar' to reduce the size. The size went down from 60GB to 4GB.
After doing additional research, I found out that to prevent this strange issue with the /segmentstore/, AEM6 SP1 should be installed (SP2 has also been released, its release notes say that SP1 is included on SP2).
This said, after SP1 was installed I've monitored my AEM6 instance for a month now, and its growth in size is back to normal.
