Re: java GC options for tomcat6 service

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:15:54 -0400
Message-ID:
<io99cn$vjo$1@news.albasani.net>
Gerard H. Pille wrote:

Lew wrote:

If it's an unknown option, that means that that version of the JVM doesn't
support that option. You might have to research available options for the JVM
that Tomcat's using.


I would have expected "unknown option -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps", not
"unknown option +PrintGCTimeStamps".


Then you would have been wrong.

"-XX:" introduces the option, it's not part of the option. Anyway, the
message is perfectly clear even with unrealized expectations, so that's a
non-issue.

It looks like you need options "--JavaHome" or "--Jvm" as well as "--JvmOptions".


Thanks Lew, but maybe you are not familiar with the "tomcat6w" gui [sic] (as
I was before yesterday): there is a box to enter the "JvmOptions", and
that's what I do. As far as I can see, there's only one JRE on that
system, but even that is specified in the service window.


Right - you didn't say you had already used "JavaHome" or "Jvm", which is why
I mentioned them. What version of the JRE is it? It might not be a bad idea
to mention that since we're talking about what version of Java supports what
options.

What do you mean "as far as I can see"? You can see everything on that
machine, so either you have only one version of Java or you don't. Which is it?

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