Post-installation configurations

The post-installation configuration steps are optional, depending on your needs and environment. If you set up Jira for evaluation purposes, you probably do not need to perform any of the following steps, but it is always good practice to be familiar with these as a reference.

You will need to restart Jira after making the changes that will be discussed in the next section.

Increasing Jira's memory

The default memory setting for Jira is usually sufficient for a small- to medium-sized deployment. As Jira's adoption rate increases, you will find that the amount of memory allocated by default is no longer enough. If Jira is running as a Windows service, as we described in this chapter...