Thanks helix84 I think I found the startup script for our tomcat in /etc/init.d/dspace
There were no settings specified???? Mmmmm..... So I added it as follows at the start and end of what was there: CATALINA_OPTS="-Xmx12288m -Xms12288m -Djava.library.path=/home/jfclere/jakarta-tomcat-connectors/jni/native/.libs -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m" Server starts without issues, will keep an eye on it. Also when doing the grep for java I see this: 2356 ? Sl 1:31 java -Xmx256m -classpath :/app/dspace/lib/activation-1.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/ant-1.7.0.jar:/app/dspace/lib/ant-launcher-1.7.0.jar:/app/dspace/lib/aopalliance-1.0.jar:/app/dspace/lib/bcmail-jdk15-1.44.jar:/app/dspace/lib/bcprov-jdk15-1.44.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-cli-1.0.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-codec-1.3.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-collections-3.2.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-dbcp-1.4.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-io-1.4.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-lang-2.2.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/commons-pool-1.4.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dnsjava-2.0.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dspace-api-1.7.2.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dspace-api-lang-1.7.1.0.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dspace-discovery-provider-1.7.2.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dspace-geoip-1.2.3.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dspace-services-api-2.0.3.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dspace-services-impl-2.0.3.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dspace-services-utils-2.0.3.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dspace-stats-1.7.2.jar:/app/dspace/lib/dspace-tm-extractors-1.0.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/ehcache-core-1.7.2.jar:/app/dspace/lib/fontbox-1.2.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/geronimo-stax-api_1.0_spec-1.0.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/handle-6.2.jar:/app/dspace/lib/icu4j-3.8.jar:/app/dspace/lib/jargon-1.4.25.jar:/app/dspace/lib/jaxen-1.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/jdom-1.0.jar:/app/dspace/lib/jempbox-1.2.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/junit-4.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar:/app/dspace/lib/lucene-analyzers-2.9.3.jar:/app/dspace/lib/lucene-core-2.9.3.jar:/app/dspace/lib/mail-1.4.jar:/app/dspace/lib/mets-1.5.2.jar:/app/dspace/lib/oclc-harvester2-0.1.12.jar:/app/dspace/lib/opensearch-0.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/oro-2.0.8.jar:/app/dspace/lib/pdfbox-1.2.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/poi-3.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/poi-ooxml-3.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/poi-scratchpad-3.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/postgresql-8.1-408.jdbc3.jar:/app/dspace/lib/rome-1.0.0.jar:/app/dspace/lib/servlet-api-2.3.jar:/app/dspace/lib/slf4j-api-1.5.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.5.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/solr-solrj-1.4.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/spring-beans-2.5.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/spring-context-2.5.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/spring-context-support-2.5.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/spring-core-2.5.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/spring-jdbc-2.5.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/spring-tx-2.5.6.jar:/app/dspace/lib/stax-api-1.0.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/utils-1.07.00.jar:/app/dspace/lib/wstx-asl-3.2.7.jar:/app/dspace/lib/xalan-2.7.0.jar:/app/dspace/lib/xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar:/app/dspace/lib/xml-apis-1.3.02.jar:/app/dspace/lib/xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar:/app/dspace/lib/xmlParserAPIs-2.0.2.jar:/app/dspace/lib/xmlunit-1.1.jar:/app/dspace/config -Ddspace.log.init.disable=true -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j-handle-plugin.properties net.handle.server.Main /app/dspace/handle-server 15998 ? Ss 0:00 jsvc.exec -user dspace -home /app/dspace-src/java -Dcatalina.home=/app/dspace-src/tomcat -Dcatalina.base=/app/dspace-src/tomcat -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp -wait 10 -pidfile /var/run/jsvc.pid -outfile /app/dspace-src/tomcat/logs/catalina.out -errfile &1 -Xmx12288m -Xms12288m -Djava.library.path=/home/jfclere/jakarta-tomcat-connectors/jni/native/.libs -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -cp /app/dspace-src/java/lib/tools.jar:/app/dspace-src/tomcat/bin/commons-daemon.jar:/app/dspace-src/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap 15999 ? Sl 0:37 jsvc.exec -user dspace -home /app/dspace-src/java -Dcatalina.home=/app/dspace-src/tomcat -Dcatalina.base=/app/dspace-src/tomcat -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp -wait 10 -pidfile /var/run/jsvc.pid -outfile /app/dspace-src/tomcat/logs/catalina.out -errfile &1 -Xmx12288m -Xms12288m -Djava.library.path=/home/jfclere/jakarta-tomcat-connectors/jni/native/.libs -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -cp /app/dspace-src/java/lib/tools.jar:/app/dspace-src/tomcat/bin/commons-daemon.jar:/app/dspace-src/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap 16126 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep java The service is running and I don’t see any issues yet. Will keep the list updated. Thanks for all help thus far! By the way we are enjoying the xml Mirage interface! Barrie Swanepoel Systems Administrator University of Johannesburg Library and Information Centre PO Box 524 Auckland Park Johannesburg Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 11 559 2347 Cell: 082 565 7743 -----Original Message----- From: ivan.ma...@gmail.com [mailto:ivan.ma...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of helix84 Sent: 07 November 2011 11:56 AM To: Swanepoel, Barrie Cc: dspace-tech Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] 1.7.2 memory errors Also, your server is definitely overdimensioned, so don't worry about that. It's all about how much memory you instruct Tomcat to use. I actually run a repository of your size inside a virtual machine with 1024 MB of RAM. 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