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

go to that path "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.4\bin\idea.exe.vmoptions" and change size to -Xmx512m

-Xms128m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=250m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=64m
-XX:+UseCodeCacheFlushing
-ea
-Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true

hope its will work