Increasing Memory for SoapUI on Mac

[tclotworthy]

Hi,

I have been getting significant performance problems when running soapUI NG on my Mac. I was provided what appears to be a pretty useful resource here:

http://readyapi.smartbear.com/soapui/working/improving_memory_usage#_ga=1.28329340.150906264.1449587...

However, it indicates that to adjust memory settings on a mac, you need to update "Contents/vmoptions.txt". I cannot find this file anywhere, nor the relavent "Contents" directory. In fact, on my ReadyAPI installation, anything meaningful from a config or bin or library perspective seems to be in this HermesJMS folder, and this frustratingly seems to have no SoapUI references at all.

Any idea how do address this on a mac is greatly appreciated. Thank you

[TanyaYatskovska]

Hi Tclotworthy,

Please refer to the following article to learn how to get access to the Contents folder:

http://readyapi.smartbear.com/readyapi/dirs/intro/mac

[tclotworthy]

Hi Tanya,

Your response allowed me to find the contents folder and related vmoptions.txt file. Unfortunately when following the directions for adjusting the memory, I ran into another issue.

The article I was directed to for improving memory usage was here Improving Memory Usage . For mac, it said

Adjust Memory Settings

This doesn't really solve the underlying problem, but if you have large WSDLs, requests, attachments, and so on the default settings in bin\soapui.bat, bin\soapui.sh, bin\vmoptions for Windows or Contents/vmoptions.txt for Mac won't be sufficient.

Open the corresponding file in a text editor and change the line

set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Xms128m -Xmx256m -Dsoapui.properties=soapui.properties

to use higher values for the max allocated size, for example:

set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Xms128m -Xmx768m -Dsoapui.properties=soapui.properties

However, when I open the Contents/vmoptions.txt file does not have the JAVA_OPTS line (as shown above) to even change it. Therefore, I simply added the recommended second line. But when I attempt to restart ReadAPI, it will not even boot. Therefore, I have simply removed the line and am now back where I started with the original memory issues.