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When building repository metadata, Spacewalk can fail with Out
of Memory issues. This is caused by the default Java memory
settings for the Taskomatic daemon. The solution is to
increase the JVM memory settings in the configuration file for
the Taskomatic daemon
/usr/share/rhn/config-defaults/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.conf
.
Similar memory issues can also occur in the web interface if
you have big data sets, such as a large number of servers or
packages. The solution is to increase the Tomcat memory limits
in the /etc/sysconfig/tomcat6
file. Edit
the JAVA_OPTS
environment variable, and
increase the -Xms
(the start or initial
amount of memory) and -Xmx
(the maximum
amount of memory) parameters.