java - How to tune Tomcat 5.5 JVM Memory settings without using the configuration program

Question

I need to configure Tomcat memory settings as part of a larger installation, so manually configuring tomcat with the configuration app after the fact is out of the question. I thought I could just throw the JVM memory settings into the JAVA_OPTS environment variable, but I'm testing that with jconsole to see if it works and it... doesn't.

As per the comment below, CATALINA_OPTS doesn't work either. So far, the only way I can get it to work is via the Tomcat configuration GUI, and that's not an acceptable solution for my problem.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/286007/how-to-tune-tomcat-5-5-jvm-memory-settings-without-using-the-configuration-progr

Answer 1

Serhii's suggestion works and here is some more detail.

If you look in your installation's bin directory you will see catalina.sh or .bat scripts. If you look in these you will see that they run a setenv.sh or setenv.bat script respectively, if it exists, to set environment variables. The relevant environment variables are described in the comments at the top of catalina.sh/bat. To use them create, for example, a file $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh with contents

export JAVA_OPTS="-server -Xmx512m"

For Windows you will need, in setenv.bat, something like

set JAVA_OPTS=-server -Xmx768m

Hope this helps, Glenn