Found a solution here: http://www.coderanch.com/t/85725/Tomcat/heap-space-setting-Tomcat-Linux
<http://www.coderanch.com/t/85725/Tomcat/heap-space-setting-Tomcat-Linux>Practically, everything works when setting the above options through CATALINA_OPTS variable. 2009/8/19 Markus Schönhaber <tomcat-us...@list-post.mks-mail.de> > Daniele Development-ML: > > > Forgot to mention that when I try with the following command: > > java -Xms512m -Xmx750m > > > > it does succeed in creating the JVM > [...] > > I don't understand why I get different behaviour passing this option the > JVM > > when starting Tomcat, and when I give directly to the JVM > > From your OP: > > JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xmx=100m -XX:MaxPermSize=350m > -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" > > You get different behaviour because you're passing *different* options > to the VM. > Moreover, as you've been told by the VM and André, -Xmx=100m isn't a > valid way to set the VM's maximum heap size. > > And BTW: instead of changing a Tomcat-provided script like catalina.sh > to set your options you should create (or edit) setenv.sh and set the > desired env vars there. > > -- > Regards > mks > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
