Memory settings

The following sample sets

• PermGen space is set to 256 MB
• Minimum application memory is 512 MB
• Maximum application memory is 1 GB

-Xmx512m -Xms1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

Max total memory in this setup is 1256 MB

Setting values in Tomcat / Windows

In the service manager change the call to Tomcat.exe to

     [path to tomcat]\tomcat[version].exe //[letters]//[name of service] --JvmOptions=-Xmx512m -Xms1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

Tomcat6

The service can be changed by

1. Open prompt
2. Run the following commands

  cd "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\bin
  tomcat6.exe //RS//tomcat6 --JvmOptions=-Xmx512m -Xms1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

Tomcat7

Use this guide

http://plavc.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/tomcat-service-on-windows/

Setting values in Tomcat / Linux

Find catalina.sh in something like: /usr/share/tomcat6/bin

Assign following line to JAVA_OPTS variable and add it into catalina.sh file.

 JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -server -Xmx512m -Xms1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"