Anything you would normally pass on the command line to "java" -- you put into CATALINA_OPTS
At some point in the script that starts tomcat, you'll see a line like (*approximately*) $JAVACMD -classpath $SOMETHING $CATALINA_OPTS or something like that -- so you can see that $CATALINA_OPTS just gets passed in as a string -- are you on windows? oh well, close enough, you get the idea i think ;) I don't know the minimum it requires -- I guess that would depend on usage and how many servlets/jsp's you have. I set mine (for mid-sized website on one server) to 256-384 and it seems almost excessive for the amount of traffic, etc. Play with it a bit, I guess would be my answer, but maybe someone else knows a more precise measurement. cheers fillup On 6/6/02 2:50 PM, "Tia Haenni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, that's simple enough. Does that limit the amount of RAM Tomcat can > use? Do you know the minimum it requires? Also, would the java > -verbosegc also be set in this way? TIA > > Phillip Morelock wrote: > >> Just like you set CATALINA_HOME >> >> set CATALINA_OPTS to the string you want to feed the vm. >> >> so >> >> %CATALINA_OPTS% should be >> -Xmx### -Xms### >> >> fillup >> >> >> On 6/6/02 2:38 PM, "Tia Haenni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> I have searched the archives for this topic, but I need more information >>> to understand. I need to limit the amount of memory used by Tomcat. I >>> have Tomcat 4.0.1 running as an nt service on a Windows 2000 server box >>> with redirects coming from IIS 5.0. I heard of using java -verbosegc to >>> monitor gc, but as the service points at <tomcat_home>\bin\tomcat.exe, I >>> don't know where this should be set. I understand the concept of setting >>> for the JVM -Xmx###m and -Xms###m where ### is the amount of RAM to >>> allocate for Tomcat, but again I do not know where this is set. Please >>> help. TIA >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
