ok, just one more question, if i pass an argument for -verbosegc or any other stuff that would normally go to the standard output (the console), but with running tomcat as a service there is no console window, where does it go? does it get dumped in a log or what?
Tia Phillip Morelock wrote: >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]> > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>