How to increase Java heap space for a tomcat app

Question

There are lots of questions that ask this or a similar question.

They all give the command that has to be executed, what I don\'t understand is where do I write this

Answer 1

Just set this extra line in catalina.bat file

LINE NO AROUND: 143

set "CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m"

And restart Tomcat service

Answer 2

There is a mechanism to do it without modifying any files that are in the distribution. You can create a separate file %CATALINA_HOME%\bin\setenv.bat or $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh and put your environment variables there. Further, the memory settings apply to the JVM, not Tomcat, so I'd set the JAVA_OPTS variable instead:

set JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx512m

Answer 3

• Open the server tab in eclipse
• right click open
• click on open lauch configuration
• Go to arguments

• Here you can add in VM arguments after endorsed

  -Xms64m -Xmx256m
  

Answer 4

First of all you cannot change the memory settings only for a tomcat application but rather for all tomcat instance.

If you are running tomcat from console (using startup.bat) you'll need to edit catalina.bat and play around with CATALINA_OPTS. For example:

set CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m

Restarting tomcat will apply the new settings.

If you are still getting OutOfMemoryError you need to know how much memory does your application need at that particular moment (nom.tam.util.ArrayFuncs...). You'll either have to optimize the application or simply increase the memory provided to tomcat.

Answer 5

you can set this in catalina.sh as CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m

Open your tomcat-dir/bin/catalina.sh file and add following line anywhere -

CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Xms1024m -Xmx3024m"

and restart your tomcat

Answer 6

You need to add the following lines in your catalina.sh file.

export CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms512M -Xmx1024M"

UPDATE : catalina.sh content clearly says -

Do not set the variables in this script. Instead put them into a script setenv.sh in CATALINA_BASE/bin to keep your customizations separate.

So you can add above in setenv.sh instead (create a file if it does not exist).