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Арсений,

On 1/27/14, 10:58 AM, Арсений Зинченко wrote:
> Thanks, Christopher.
> 
> OK, what about next:
> 
> Set JAVA_OPTS as system variable (for all other applications); and
> create setenv.bat in /bin/ directory with CATALINA_OPTS whith
> Xmx/Xms for Tomcat?
> 
> Will it be more correctly than set CATALINA_OPTS as System
> variable? Or - by the way, in setevn.bat must be used JAVA_OPTS
> too? <https://plus.google.com/u/0/113253806461878935497?prsrc=4>
> 
> 
> 2014/1/27 Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>
> 
> Арсений,
> 
> On 1/27/14, 9:21 AM, Арсений Зинченко wrote:
>>>> We have a little dispute with my colleague about using this 
>>>> variables.
>>>> 
>>>> So: have Windows-box machine. On it - runing few different 
>>>> Java-application, including Tomcat.
>>>> 
>>>> Needs to set memory for Tomcat other, than for all other 
>>>> Java-applications.
>>>> 
>>>> My proposal is set to System variables:
>>>> 
>>>> JAVA_OPTS "-Xmx1024M -Xms512M -XX:MaxPermSize512M"
>>>> CATALINA_OPTS "-Xmx4096M -Xms2048M -XX:MaxPermSize=1024M"
>>>> 
>>>> But, as he asserts - this is not correct way:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> - CATALINA_OPTS must NOT contain memory limits like "Xmx",
>>>> "Xms" etc; - Java Garbage collector will work differently
>>>> because JAVA_OPTS have another opts for memory then
>>>> CATALINA_OPTS, so - this will worse Tomcat performance; - and
>>>> so on
> 
> Tomcat runs Java roughly in this way:
> 
> $JAVA_HOME/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS $CATALINA_OPTS  \ 
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
> 
> If you have these options configured using both environment
> variables, then CATALINA_OPTS (the later one) will win because
> that's how the JVM parses arguments: the last one on the
> command-line wins. So, it's perfectly safe to do what you have
> described above.
> 
> On the other hand, note that since JAVA_OPTS specifies 0.5GiB of
> heap space for when you are /not/ launching Tomcat, then running 
> "bin\shutdown.bat" will pre-allocate 0.5GiB of heap space just to
> send the "shutdown" command to a running Tomcat instance, and then 
> terminate. It's kind of a waste.
> 
> I totally agree with Dan's comments about how using "system 
> variables": just use bin/setenv.bat and keep everything locally.
> 
>>>> His suggestion is to set JAVA_OPTS with memory limits exactly
>>>> to Tomcat startup script (not as system variable at all).
> 
> +1
> 
>>>> So, my question is: is it correct to set memory limits for
>>>> Tomcat via CATALINA_OPTS variable? If in system also present
>>>> JAVA_OPTS - will it have influence on to Tomcat's
>>>> perfarmance?
> 
> See above.
> 
> -chris

I would always recommend that you use bin/setenv.sh (or
bin\setenv.bat) because you can then set the value differently for
each Tomcat instance that you have. This becomes an issue if you have
many different Tomcat instances, which I tend to do.

- -chris
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