How to increase Java heap space for a tomcat app

Question

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They all give the command that has to be executed, what I don\'t understand is where do I write this

Answer 1

There is a mechanism to do it without modifying any files that are in the distribution. You can create a separate file %CATALINA_HOME%\bin\setenv.bat or $CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh and put your environment variables there. Further, the memory settings apply to the JVM, not Tomcat, so I'd set the JAVA_OPTS variable instead:

set JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx512m