Tomcat 5 reporting memory errors

2009-10-06

  • Tomcat

Summary

Tomcat 5 is running out of memory

Symptoms

Java IO errors in catalina.out

Cause

default options not modified to meet requirements of system

Solution

edit /etc/sysconfig/j2ee

CATALINA_OPTS=""

so it looks like:

CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms256M -Xmx512M"

for example, this will give min 256mb and max 512mb memory to Tomcat
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