<p>I need to configure Tomcat memory settings as part of a larger installation, so manually configuring tomcat with the configuration app after the fact is out of the question. I thought I could just throw the JVM memory settings into the JAVA_OPTS environment variable, but I'm testing that with jconsole to see if it works and it... doesn't.</p>

<p>As per the comment below, CATALINA_OPTS doesn't work either. So far, the only way I can get it to work is via the Tomcat configuration GUI, and that's not an acceptable solution for my problem.</p>

Use the
```
CATALINA_OPTS
```
environment variable.