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How can I decrease RAM used by Pentaho Server?


I do'nt have enough RAM to run Pentaho Server, just 4Gb of ram, now I'm on Linux and I'm running the ctlscript.sh file to enable the server but I have others process running and this makes my computer have lag. Any idea about that?

I really need to use this tool but now I don't have chance to buy more Ram in this moment.

I have swap but it is not enough for me.

[EDIT]
I'm just trying to user User console of Pentaho


Solution

  • You can disable plugins you don't need. By default there are a number of plugins installed with Pentaho and if you don't need a particular one you can disable it.

    Once you've disabled enough plugins you should be able to decrease the value of the Xmx startup parameter on your start-pentaho.sh script and it should still work.

    Plugins are all installed in your pentaho-solutions/system folder. Any sub-folder that has a plugin.xml file is a plugin. If you rename that file to anything else (e.g., plugin.xml.disabled) it won't be loaded. It's still there if you need to enable it later, but it won't take up any resources.