[TriLUG] ulimit violations

Tarus Balog tarus at opennms.org
Fri Jul 15 11:09:54 EDT 2005


On Jul 14, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:

> I have a mis-behaving Tomcat webapp (that I didn't write) which  
> likes to
> increase its memory size from ~80M on startup to ~125M after some  
> amount
> of usage at which point it crashes with OutOfMemoryException.   
> Obviously
> the devs need to fix whatever memory they're leaking or filehandles
> they've left open so that the thing is actually scalable.

You need to look at the Tomcat4 HEAP size. Tomcat internally limits  
the amount of memory an app can use, probably in your case to 128M.  
You need to add an "-Xmx 256M" or some such option to your Tomcat  
startup.

-T

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