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[10:05:22 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> what OS are you on?
[10:06:40 CDT(-0500)] <skreech_> Debian 6.0.4
[10:06:48 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> ok
[10:06:49 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> do
[10:06:55 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> export CATALINA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=300m -Xmx1024m"
[10:07:02 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> in the same terminal you're starting tomcat with
[10:07:16 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> you'll want to either edit TOMCAT_HOME/bin/startup.sh
[10:07:24 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> or add that to your wrapper script
[10:07:39 CDT(-0500)] <EricDalquist> but you need more than the default permgen space