Increasing Memory for Performance


Celoxis is configured to use a maximum of 4GB of memory. While this is enough for most cases, you can increase this if you have a large installation or if you have more RAM.

  1. Stop Celoxis.
  2. Increase the memory as described below
  3. Start Celoxis.

We shall now see how to increase the memory allocated to Celoxis to 8GB (i.e. 8192 MB)

If Celoxis is installed as Windows Service

  1. Navigate to <Celoxis-Install-Dir>/psa_14.5.x/bin and run celoxisw.exe.
  2. Click on the Java tab.
  3. Enter 8192 in the Maximum memory pool field.
  4. Click OK.

If Celoxis not installed as a Windows Service

  1. Right click My Computer.
  2. Click Properties.
  3. Click the Advanced tab (or click Advanced system settings in Windows Vista).
  4. Click the Environment Variables button
  5. Under System variables, click New.
  6. Set variable name to CATALINA_OPTS and variable value to -Xms512M -Xmx8192M
  7. Click OK.
  8. Click OK on the Advanced tab to close the window.

  1. Open a terminal and login as the user that starts Celoxis.
  2. Add: export CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx8192M to the user's startup file (e.g. .profile)
  3. Save the file.
  4. Logout and Login again.