2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/container-accesslogging/src/main/java/com/yahoo/container/logging/LogFileHandler.java b/container-accesslogging/src/main/java/com/yahoo/container/logging/LogFileHandler.java
index 4f3713d3842..e7e8d931d9e 100644
--- a/container-accesslogging/src/main/java/com/yahoo/container/logging/LogFileHandler.java
+++ b/container-accesslogging/src/main/java/com/yahoo/container/logging/LogFileHandler.java
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ public class LogFileHandler extends StreamHandler {
     }
 
 
-    private void runCompression(File oldFile) {
+    static void runCompression(File oldFile) {
         File gzippedFile = new File(oldFile.getPath() + ".gz");
         try (GZIPOutputStream compressor = new GZIPOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(gzippedFile), 0x100000);
              FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(oldFile))
diff --git a/container-accesslogging/src/test/java/com/yahoo/container/logging/CompressWhileDrop.java b/container-accesslogging/src/test/java/com/yahoo/container/logging/CompressWhileDrop.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3ac1e00b1a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/container-accesslogging/src/test/java/com/yahoo/container/logging/CompressWhileDrop.java
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+package com.yahoo.container.logging;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+public class CompressWhileDrop {
+    public static void main(String [] args) {
+        System.out.println("Start compressing file " + args[0]);
+        LogFileHandler.runCompression(new File(args[0]));
+    }
+}