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VIVO may require more memory than allocated to Tomcat by default. With most installations of Tomcat, the setenv.sh or setenv.bat file in Tomcat's bin directory is a convenient place to set the memory parameters. If this file does not exist in Tomcat's bin directory, you can create it. 

For example:

This tells Tomcat to allocate an initial heap of 512 megabytes, a maximum heap of 512 megabytes, and a PermGen space of 128 megs. Larger values may be required, especially for production installations in large enterprises. In general, VIVO runs more quickly if given more memory.

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VIVO is a multithreaded web application that may require more threads than are permitted under your operating system's installation's default configuration. Ensure that your installation can support the required number of threads by making for your application.  For a Linux production environment you may wish to make the following edits to /etc/security/limits.conf, replacing apache and tomcat with the appropriate user or group name for your setup:

Set URI encoding

In order for VIVO to correctly handle international characters, you must configure Tomcat to conform to the URI standard by accepting percent-encoded UTF-8.

Edit Tomcat's conf/server.xml and add the following attribute to each of the Connector elements: URIEncoding="UTF-8".

Take care when creating Context elements

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