Peter, I usually specify the memory settings and other java options directly inside the tomcat/bin/catalina.sh script. If you add at the top of the file, just below the comments explaining the parameters, this line:
# increase memory JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx2024M"
you should then be using up to 2gig of memory. You can change the *maximum* amount of memory usable by the Java Virtual Machine by changing -Xmx2024M to your desired size.
The easiest way to monitor the real memory consumption on a mac is to open /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor and watch your processes. Does this work for you?
Markus
On Feb 5, 2009, at 16:53, Peter Desmet wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to increase the memory of Tomcat, so I copied the setenv.sh Tim provided to the bin directory, but this breaks Tomcat (http://localhost:8080/ can not be found). Removing the file and restarting Tomcat fixes the problem. I also discovered some warnings in Terminal when I want to ./shutdown.sh Tomcat, which weren't there before.
Are there other ways to increase the memory, and how can I check how much memory is allocated to Tomcat?
I use apache-tomcat-6.0.18 on Mac OS X (10.5.6) with 4GB SDRAM. The setenv.sh file contains Tim's: export JAVA_OPTS="-server -XX:+UseParallelGC -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -Xms1024m -Djava.awt.headless=true"
Peter
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