Allocate more memory to Tomcat 6 in 8.10?

[madde001]

I just installed Ubuntu 8.10 and the Tomcat 6 setup is unfamiliar to me, with Tomcat server now starting as a system process.

If I need to allocate more Java heap to my Tomcat, where do I change that setting?

[o_sam_o]

just edit the /ect/init.d/tomcat6 file, change the JAVA_OPTS

e.g. change it to:
JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

[JeppeM]

Note that if you're using the 32 bit version of ubuntu, you can't assign more than a few GB to tomcat... We had to strap our installation and install the 64bit since our tomcat needs 10 GB

It's actually not the OS bit version, but the java bit version from what i remember, so make sure you have 64 bit java as well if you want more memory...

[al_mic]

On newer ubuntu versions you must edit /etc/default/tomcat6
The JAVA_OPTS from that file will be the one setting the memory.

[nothingspecial]

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