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How to increase Tomcat heap size in Windchill 9.0 and 9.1

Modified: 03-Dec-2015   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.0 to 9.1
  • FlexPLM 9.0 to 9.2

Description

  • How to increase Tomcat heap size?
  • How to increase the memory allocated to Tomcat?
  • Applet fails with error 500 - Out Of Memory Exception
  • java.lang.OutOfMemoryError reported in Tomcat
  • GC overhead limit exceeded reported in Tomcat
  • Tomcat throws error java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
  • In the Windchill UI error message Windchill Error: Java Heap Space can be seen
  • Tomcat becomes unresponsive with low memory warnings in Tomcat logs:
WARN  [Low Memory Detector] wt.jmx.notif.memory - Time=XXX, Name=MemoryNotifier, SourceObjectName=com.ptc:wt.servlet.system=WebAppContexts,wt.webAppContext=/Windchill,wt.subsystem=Monitors,wt.monitorType=Memory, class=class javax.management.Notification, type=java.management.memory.collection.threshold.exceeded, userData=[count=787,poolName=PS Old Gen,usage=[committed=89522176,init=44761088,max=89522176,used=89522176]], message=Memory usage exceeds collection usage threshold, JVM Name=XXX...
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