This is one of the pains of maintaining an Axigen server. If you don't do it often enough, the server will run out of disk space. Or when you have to restart the server, it will take hours to start.

The compacting command is not interactive. After issuing the command, it does not ask for any more inputs. So it should be automated and run in the background on a configured schedule. Errors should be logged and the admin should be notified via email.