Getting VisualVM to Connect to Railo 4

VisualVM is a great Java VM debugging tool that can show you VM performance as it runs your code. Since Railo runs on Java VM, this is a great tool to see if your code is leaking memory.

NOTE: This setup is on a debian linux box running railo installed via the script with an apt-get install apache frontend. This should behave similarly on ubuntu, centos, etc. Please leave comments if you have issues.

Edit /opt/railo/tomcat/bin/setenv.sh (~ line 6)

Append to the line with your JAVA_OPTS variable the commands in red below. ( I spaced out the code below for readability, but keep the red text to one line)

JAVA_OPTS=”-Xms512m -Xmx3G -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8701
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=<your server’s ip — i.e. 138.234.132.32>

“; # memory settings

Save and then restart “/etc/init.d/railo_ctl restart”

SOME NOTES
-You can use any available port number
-Use your server’s real IP to tell where to bind the listener, without it, the listener will be localhost only.