Tomcat: adjust memory proportions

Question

I have a Tomcat instance running on a Windows 2008 Server with 4GB of RAM. The server is dedicated to this one application, so I would quite like to be able to dedicate mos

Answer 1

Despite having a 64 bit server I only had 32 bit Java/Tomcat installed. I uninstalled Java and Tomcat and installed 64 bit versions and everything worked fine. it seems that the issue was that 32 bit Java can only address 1.5 GB.