In the tomcat startup script catalina.sh, which is in the tomcat bin directory, the script looks for that env var and uses it as a startup arg to JAVA when it invokes it.
Do you run the tomcat/bin/startup.sh to start your tomcat? If so, that calls catalina.sh. On 10/21/07, Lou Iorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where does $JAVA_OPTS come from? It doesn't exist on my mac or my linux > machine.Have I not set tomcat up correctly? > > Thanks, > > Lou > > On Oct 21, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Henry Minsky wrote: > > You should start tomcat with at least 512MB of RAM. > > I have this set in my environment > $ echo $JAVA_OPTS > -Xmx500m > > > And the tomcat startup script uses that to up the max RAM to 512MB. If you > have 2GB, you could set it higher even. > > > On 10/21/07, Lou Iorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I get frequent "out of memory" errors when trying to compile examples > > from the dguide. > > > > I'm running a MacBook Pro with 2 G of RAM. > > > > Is there a way to increase the memory available to Tomcat? Or is > > there another solution? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Lou > > > > > > > -- > Henry Minsky > Software Architect > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Henry Minsky Software Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
