How to give more memory to IntelliJ Idea 9-11
This concerns Intellij from 9 to 11. In the IDEA window On the bottom right corner I see the current memory usage, typically "224M of 254M" How do I give more memory to Idea so it may read like "224M of 512M" ?
Thank you.
Solution 1:
On Mac, $IDEA_HOME/Contents/Info.plist
~: grep --context=5 Xmx /Applications/Maia-IU-94.426.app/Contents/Info.plist
<string>true</string>
<key>apple.awt.fullscreencapturealldisplays</key>
<string>false</string>
</dict>
<key>VMOptions</key>
<string>-Xms128m -Xmx912m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:MaxPermSize=250m -ea -agentlib:yjpagent=disablej2ee,disablecounts,disablealloc,sessionname=IntelliJIdea90 -Xbootclasspath/a:../lib/boot.jar</string>
<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>$APP_PACKAGE/bin</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
On Windows/Linux, %IDEA_HOME%\bin\idea.vmoptions
Solution 2:
Edit the following file:
idea/bin/idea.vmoptions
Solution 3:
For Windows, in your IntelliJ Idea folder modify idea.exe.vmoptions
.
See http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2006/04/configuring-intellij-idea-vm-options/