How to Increase Tomcat Heap Memory


This Article shows how to increase Tomcat Heap Memory:


As per Versa Recommendations for Fusion 20.2.2 the Heap Memory should be

Min: 5% ~ 0.05
Max:15% ~ 0.15

If not, the Search Node may not be accessible from Director GUI and Web UI as well. So we have to follow below steps to increase Tomcat Heap Memory.


STEP:1 locate setenv.sh & open /opt/versa/scripts/van-install/tomcat/setenv.sh



STEP:2 Edit the File and increase the Heap Memory.



STEP:3 Enter to the root user and do tomcat restart on node.

  1. sudo kill -9 $(pgrep -lf /opt/versa_van/apps/apache-tomcat | awk '{print $1}')
  2. sudo /opt/versa_van/apps/apache-tomcat/bin/startup.sh




STEP:4 After doing tomcat restart check the Tomcat heap Memory.

  1. locate setenv.sh
  2. vi /opt/versa/scripts/van-install/tomcat/setenv.sh