Add this to conf/server.xml

   <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false">
       
        <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
        prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
        pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" />
        <Context path="/" docBase="/opt/sites/default" debug="0" reloadable="false" processTlds="false" >

 <Manager className="org.apache.catalina.session.PersistentManager"
       debug="0" distributable="false" saveOnRestart="false" pathname="" >
               <Store className="org.apache.catalina.session.FileStore"/>
                 </Manager>

        </Context>
        </Host>

processTlds fixes slow startup performance

Also: WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.Catalina.html">Catalina*.level = SEVERE
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.Catalina.html">Catalina*.handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

Or edit this file:

/opt/entermedia/tomcat/conf/logging.properties

.level = INFO
.level = SEVERE

Setup tomcat/bin/setenv.sh

export JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"