Appropriate place in catalina.bat to set JAVA_OPTS

Question

I got the below error

\"java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space\"

In my catalina.bat file, where is the appropriate place f

Answer 1

The proper place is to create a new file in the Tomcat /bin directory alongside catalina.bat, named setenv.bat and place a set JAVA_OPTS=... there.

On *nix system it'd be setenv.sh

catalina.bat/catalina.sh takes care of running setenv.bat/setenv.sh if it exists. This is noted in the section 3.4 here