OBIEE 12c: JavaHost Fails To Start After Increasing JVM Heap Size

(Doc ID 2380457.1)

Last updated on MAY 03, 2018

Applies to:

Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition - Version 12.2.1.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

You have tried to increase the JavaHost component JVM heap size as per the instructions in KM Doc 2243306.1 but when trying to start the process it fails:

Finished starting servers

Status of Domain: <DOMAIN_HOME>
NodeManager (<hostname>:<port>): RUNNING

Name            Type     Machine      Status
----            ----     -------      ------
AdminServer     Server   <hostname>   RUNNING
bi_server1      Server   <hostname>   RUNNING
obips1          OBIPS    <hostname>   RUNNING
obijh1          OBIJH    <hostname>   SHUTDOWN
obiccs1         OBICCS   <hostname>   RUNNING
obisch1         OBISCH   <hostname>   RUNNING
obis1           OBIS     <hostname>   RUNNING

Changes

You modified the obijh.properties and changed the MEM_ARGS parameter as:

MEM_ARGS=-Xmx2048M # increased from 1024 to 2048

Cause

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