Hey Chuck, I'm sure you are right - and that it was what I was following at the beginning. And the resulting situation was what I describe above: getting a error message in the catalina.out and my application unable to load (404 at the application URL). In addition to this, I got also an explicit (on the console) message reporting this problem when shutting down Tomcat.
To understand it better, I ran jconsole locally and I could notice that the heap was not set as indicated in the option. Differently, when using it with the CATALINA_OPTS, things work and also jconsole indicates that the heap size is the one specifies - except that is converted in bytes - but it does match. I don't know why - and I'm not even sure how "good" (style-wise) this approach is - but I'm reporting my experience. If anybody could suggest some motivation or direction for investigation on this, I'm glad to try them. Dan On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > From: Daniele Development-ML [mailto:daniele....@googlemail.com] > > Subject: Re: Increasing Heap Size and Max Perm Size > > > > Practically, everything works when setting the above options > > through CATALINA_OPTS variable. > > Someone's confused. JAVA_OPTS works fine, but it affects both the startup > and shutdown scripts. CATALINA_OPTS affects only the startup script. The > last posting in the referenced article is incorrect. > > And despite your protestations, having an equals sign in the -Xmx parameter > has never been allowed on a JVM supplied by Sun, and will cause an immediate > JVM initialization failure. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
