JAL-3091 release notes for updated memory settings

[jalview.git] / help / html / memory.html

diff --git a/help/html/memory.html b/help/html/memory.html
index 2142f98..9437a60 100755 (executable)
--- a/help/html/memory.html
+++ b/help/html/memory.html
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.initial=500m
 ! <string>-Xms2M</string>
 ! <string>-Xmx64M</string>
 </array>
-</pre> Exchange the above two string tags for : <pre>
+</pre>Exchange the above two string tags for : <pre>
 &lt;string&gt;-Xms500M&lt;/string&gt;
 &lt;string&gt;-Xmx1000M&lt;/string&gt;
 </pre>
@@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.initial=500m
       the file and try to start Jalview in the normal way. If it doesn't
       start, see below...</li>
   </ul>
+  <p>
+    <em>Please Note:</em> We do modify the default memory settings in
+    Jalview from time to time, so you may find different numbers to
+    those shown in the examples above.
+  </p>
   <font size="3"><em>Jalview doesn't start... What do the
       memory settings mean ?<a name="memsetting"></a>
   </em></font>
@@ -140,6 +145,12 @@ lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.initial=500m
     enlighten us if you know better!). Our experiments found 1000m to be
     the biggest setting that could be used on a 1GB machine. Just try
     reducing the sizes until Jalview starts up properly!</p>
+  <p>
+    We increased the default memory in Jalview 2.10.5 to 1G. To launch
+    Jalview with the pre 2.10.5 default memory allocation, use the <a
+      href="http://www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview_256MB.jnlp">Jalview
+      256MB JNLP</a>.
+  </p>
   <p>&nbsp;</p>
 </body>
 </html>