<li>The <a href="#editing"><strong>"Editing"</strong>
Preferences</a> tab contains settings affecting behaviour when editing alignments.
</li>
+ <li>The <a href="#startup"><strong>"Startup"</strong>
+ Preferences</a> tab allows you to adjust how much memory is
+ allocated to Jalview when it is launched.
+ </li>
<li>The <a href="../webServices/webServicesPrefs.html"><strong>"Web
Service"</strong> Preferences</a> tab allows you to configure the <a
href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws">JABAWS</a>
loaded onto the alignment will automatically sort the alignment.
</p>
<p> </p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="startup"><strong>Startup</strong></a>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When Jalview is launched it by default examines the available memory
+ and requests up to 90% to be allocated to the application, or 32G,
+ which ever is smaller. The <em>Startup</em> tab allows you to adjust
+ the maximum percentage and hard limits for Jalview memory allocation
+ stored in your .jalview_properties file.
+ </p>
+ <p> </p>
<em>Web Services Preferences</em> - documentation for this tab is
given in the
<a href="../webServices/webServicesPrefs.html">Web Services