diff --git a/openbis/dist/server/startup.sh b/openbis/dist/server/startup.sh
index b538864e9ee75b7a90d4b34c33b0091d19d997e7..44c1b6d4aa3d293f3427919abc2415e779d9b2e2 100755
--- a/openbis/dist/server/startup.sh
+++ b/openbis/dist/server/startup.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ fi
 $JVM -DSTOP.PORT=$JETTY_STOP_PORT \
      -DSTOP.KEY=$JETTY_STOP_KEY \
      $JAVA_OPTS $JAVA_MEM_OPTS \
+     $OPENBIS_OPTS \
      -Dpython.path=$JETTY_LIB_PATH \
      -jar ../jetty-dist/start.jar --lib=lib/logging/*.jar:webapps/openbis/WEB-INF/lib/*.jar etc/jetty-started.xml >> logs/jetty.out 2>&1 &
 
diff --git a/openbis_standard_technologies/dist/server/openbis.conf b/openbis_standard_technologies/dist/server/openbis.conf
index 6c5055b8023ca0d4c43cc2916239c0558d00efc9..1fbda536772b27e9509a6eaaedc4d99bfaefda9c 100644
--- a/openbis_standard_technologies/dist/server/openbis.conf
+++ b/openbis_standard_technologies/dist/server/openbis.conf
@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@ JAVA_OPTS=${JAVA_OPTS:=-server -d64 -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=etc/openBIS.keyst
 # Memory options to the JRE
 #
 JAVA_MEM_OPTS="-Xmx2048m -Xms512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"
+
+#
+# OpenBIS options
+#
+OPENBIS_OPTS="-Dch.ethz.sis.openbis.v3.searchCache.size=25%"