JAVA_OPTS may use by Other applications, but only Tomcat will use CATALINA_OPTS. So if you're setting environment variables for use only by Tomcat, you'll be best advised to use CATALINA_OPTS, whereas if you're setting environment variables to be used by other java applications as well, you should put your settings in JAVA_OPTS. What can go in there! You can increase heap memory available to the JVM. You can open remote monitoring ports so that Jconsole on another system can watch how your Tomcat is running. You can add in a -server to switch from the client (quicker start, slower running) JVM to the server (slower starting, quicker running) JVM. You can increase java thread stack size using the -Xss option (same way to specify amount of memory as in -Xms and -Xmx as described in the "increase heap memory" link above. for more visit : http://www.sanjeevrathaur.com/2015/10/javaopts-variable-details.html
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