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 s

Answer 1

On Mac, $IDEA_HOME/Contents/Info.plist

 ~: grep --context=5 Xmx /Applications/Maia-IU-94.426.app/Contents/Info.plist 
            true
            apple.awt.fullscreencapturealldisplays
            false
        
        VMOptions
        -Xms128m -Xmx912m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:MaxPermSize=250m -ea -agentlib:yjpagent=disablej2ee,disablecounts,disablealloc,sessionname=IntelliJIdea90 -Xbootclasspath/a:../lib/boot.jar
        WorkingDirectory
        $APP_PACKAGE/bin
    

On Windows/Linux, %IDEA_HOME%\bin\idea.vmoptions