How to set system properties for Confluence running as a service on Windows
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Summary
When running Confluence as a Windows Service, it doesn't recognize the system properties in setenv.bat and instead loads them from Tomcat.
Solution
How to modify properties for a Windows Service:
Identify the name of the service that Confluence is installed as in Windows (
Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services).Open a command prompt (
Start >> Run, type in 'cmd' >> Enter).cdto thebindirectory of your Confluence instance.Type and run the following (change tomcat9w to whatever version you are using):
1tomcat9w //ES//<Your_Service_Name>Click on the
Javatab to see the list of current start-up options:You can set the initial and maximum memory heap allocation here via "initial/maximum memory pool."
You can add System Properties to the Java Options field (one per line).
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