How to deal with “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space” error?

Question

I am writing a client-side Swing application (graphical font designer) on Java 5. Recently, I am running into java.lang.OutOfMemoryEr

Answer 1

Follow below steps:

1. Open catalina.sh from tomcat/bin.

2. Change JAVA_OPTS to

   JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -server -Xms1536m 
   -Xmx1536m -XX:NewSize=256m -XX:MaxNewSize=256m -XX:PermSize=256m 
   -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+DisableExplicitGC"
   

3. Restart your tomcat