Red Hat Network Satellite server is encountering an Internal Server Error in webUI and tomcat OutOfMemory error when comparing configuration files

Issue

• Trying to diff two config files on the Red Hat Network Satellite server, which produced an Internal Server Error in the WebUI and an OutOfMemory Error in the tomcat6 logs.

Error as seen in /var/log/tomcat6/catatlina.out:

Caused by:  
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError  
    at com.redhat.rhn.common.filediff.Trace.fork(Trace.java:108)  
    at com.redhat.rhn.common.filediff.Trace.step(Trace.java:170)  
    at com.redhat.rhn.common.filediff.Differ.step(Differ.java:76)  
    at com.redhat.rhn.common.filediff.Differ.diff(Differ.java:49)  
    at com.redhat.rhn.common.filediff.Diff.diffFiles(Diff.java:92)  
    at com.redhat.rhn.common.filediff.Diff.htmlDiff(Diff.java:51)  
    at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.configuration.files.DiffAction.performFileDiff(DiffAction.java:100)  
    at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.configuration.files.DiffAction.execute(DiffAction.java:70)