Allocating additional memory for Fortify Audit Workbench

To increase the memory allocated for Fortify Audit Workbench, set the environment variable AWB_VM_OPTS. (For example, set AWB_VM_OPTS=-Xmx4G to allocate 4 GB to Fortify Audit Workbench.) If you choose to set AWB_VM_OPTS, do not allocate more memory than is physically available. Over-allocation degrades performance.

In Fortify Audit Workbench, issue information is persisted to disk. This persisted information is reloaded on demand and thereby decreases the required memory footprint of Fortify Audit Workbench. To prevent out‑of‑memory errors, you can set a value in the fortify.properties file to take advantage of the information persisted to disk functionality. Set the property as follows:

com.fortify.model.PersistDataToDisk=true