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

If you are using:

• Ubuntu
• 64 bit hardware

then you need to create idea64.vmoptions by simply copying the options from idea.vmoptions file

cat idea.vmoptions > idea64.vmoptions

The parameters remain the same: -Xmx1024M -Xms512M