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Tomcat fails to start when the app server heap parameters are defined in custom.properties. The following error is seen in the tomcat-stdOut.log:
========================================================================= YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS Beginning to start Appian in Tomcat Invalid initial heap size: -XmsXXXXm Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit. YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS Appian in Tomcat is stopped nohup: ignoring input
conf.appserver.minHeapSize= conf.appserver.maxHeapSize=
conf.appserver.minHeapSize=2048M conf.appserver.maxHeapSize=4096M
dos2unix custom.properties
This article applies to Appian 18.3 and later on Linux.
Last Reviewed: September 2019