# How can I increase the memory used by wowza.

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-memory-used-by-wowza/50408>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** media-players-and-devices\
**Created:** [December 20, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-memory-used-by-wowza/50408 "2017-12-20T19:23:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Federico\_Jimenez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ec9cab/32.png) [@Federico\_Jimenez](https://community.wowza.com/u/Federico_Jimenez)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-memory-used-by-wowza/50408/1 "2017-12-20T19:23:44Z")

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My computer have 2GB of Memory and 10GB in Swap.

How I can increase the momory, by example. In tomcat I can edit the file setenev.sh with the next text.

export CATALINA\_OPTS="$CATALINA\_OPTS -Xms4096m" export CATALINA\_OPTS="$CATALINA\_OPTS -Xmx8192m"

Wowza have this file, but how I can edit this file…?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-can-i-increase-the-memory-used-by-wowza/50408/2 "2017-12-22T20:35:23Z")

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Wowza Streaming Engine, by default, has access to all memory once you enable production level. As Wowza is written in Java you can modify java memory usage per the instructions in the article below.

[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-performance-tuning](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-performance-tuning)