Alan,
We override JAVA_OPTS for the nightly filter-media task in our cron.
export JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1200m;dspace filter-media ...
We have a set of automated ingest tools. We set JAVA_OPTS in some of the
workflows that are run by those tools.
https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/batch-tools/blob/master/bin-src/dspaceBatch.sh
Terry
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Alan Orth <alan.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm curious if anyone sets memory limits for DSpace's various cron jobs?
>
> Lately we've been having Tomcat's java process get killed every morning
> around the same time, and all dmesg shows is that "java" was killed by
> the kernel's OOM killer. Catalina logs don't show any "SEVERE" errors,
> so I have to assume it's the cron jobs which are using up loads of
> memory and then confusing the kernel, which then identifies Tomcat's
> java as the memory hog and kills it.
>
> So I'm just curious if anyone has had these kinds of problems, and
> if/what they set their JAVA_OPTS to in crontab.
>
> The long term plan of course is to move to a machine with more memory
> (currently 4GB).
>
> Thanks,
>
> DSpace version is 3.1, OS is Ubuntu 12.04.
>
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