How to give more memory to IntelliJ Idea 9-11

Question

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.

Answer 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

Answer 2

Edit the following file:

idea/bin/idea.vmoptions