diff --git a/src/geoserver-geonode-ext/startup.sh b/src/geoserver-geonode-ext/startup.sh
index f0138c6bce2..f6cd12a7ffc 100755
--- a/src/geoserver-geonode-ext/startup.sh
+++ b/src/geoserver-geonode-ext/startup.sh
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -XX:CompileCommandFile=../../etc/hotspot_compiler" mvn jetty:run 
+MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:CompileCommandFile=../../etc/hotspot_compiler" mvn jetty:run