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Three options for increasing Tomcat's allowed memory:
Start Tomcat with these parameters at the command line. Note: The current ANT task "Start Tomcat" will start with these options.
Panel -Xmx512m -Xms512m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:NewSize=128m
If running Tomcat as a Windows Service, open up the Tomcat Monitor (TOMCAT_HOME/bin/tomcat5w.exe). Configure Tomcat -> Java -> Java Options, or go to Control Panel > Services > Apache Tomcat > Properties > Start Parameters. Append:
Panel -Xmx512m -Xms512m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:NewSize=128m
Note 1: if you copy and paste the above into tomcat monitor, make sure that it doesn't insert an extra space at the end of each line, or tomcat will fail to start.
Note 2: If running 64 bit version of Tomcat, you have to edit the Windows Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Apache Software Foundation\Procrun 2.0\Tomcat5\Parameters\JavaJVM settings in Registry
Note 3: It no longer works to set these parameters through a JAVA_OPTS environment variable
If running Tomcat as a Linux daemon, open the /etc/init.d/Tomcat.sh script and append the parameters to the CATALINA_OPTS variable: i.e.
Panel If CATALINA_OPTS is already set to this: CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.library.path=/opt/tomcat/lib/.libs"
then change it to this: CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.library.path=/opt/tomcat/lib/.libs -Xmx512m -Xms512m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:NewSize=128m"For Ubuntu, see Jonah Mwogi's directions in the comments below .
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Solution for Tomcat memory leak:
In <TOMCAT HOME>/conf/web.xml file, in the jsp servlet definition add the following element:
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