Advanced Configuration

Message Size Limit

There can be a limit to the size of a single websocket message. In Tomcat the default maximum message size is 8192 bytes. If you hit this limit you may get an error in the browser console that reads:

The decoded text message was too big for the output buffer and the endpoint does not support partial messages

You can configure Tomcat to have a bigger maximum (consider the server memory requirements though). Edit the web.xml file and add the following:

<context-param>
    <param-name>org.apache.tomcat.websocket.textBufferSize</param-name>
    <param-value>16384</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
    <param-name>org.apache.tomcat.websocket.binaryBufferSize</param-name>
    <param-value>16384</param-value>
</context-param>  

This limit can be reached for example by calling the jlab.epics2web.monitorPvs(pvs) method with 1000 PV names of 9 characters each.