X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=help%2Fhtml%2Fmemory.html;h=9437a60e1c8619787181a43ddd8e1c51356099ba;hb=731bdab77e5aab4f7fd77fc099af714a16269a94;hp=9c856a957c569f7e829f9af19dfc398b29ac3977;hpb=c17661b22323a66090ea91e04751aa17461b17c5;p=jalview.git diff --git a/help/html/memory.html b/help/html/memory.html index 9c856a9..9437a60 100755 --- a/help/html/memory.html +++ b/help/html/memory.html @@ -63,15 +63,13 @@ file. You can obtain a JNLP file with modified memory settings from our service with the following link (replace 2G with desired memory in G or M):
http://www.jalview.org/services/launchApp?jvm-max-heap=2G + href="http://www.jalview.org/services/launchApp?jvm-max-heap=2G">http://www.jalview.org/services/launchApp?jvm-max-heap=2G

Alternatively, if you want to create your own JNLP file then please download the latest JNLP file from http://www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp and modify the - max-heap-size parameter for the j2se tag in the + href="http://www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp">http://www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp + and modify the max-heap-size parameter for the j2se tag in the <resources> element. e.g.

 <j2se version="1.7+" initial-heap-size="500M" max-heap-size="1000M"/>
@@ -109,6 +107,7 @@ lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.initial=500m
             The lines you need to change are in the Info.plist
             file inside the Jalview.app/Contents directory
             (which is where the installAnywhere installation was made) :
+
           
           
 <key&ht;VMOptions</key&ht;
@@ -116,7 +115,7 @@ lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.initial=500m
 ! <string>-Xms2M</string>
 ! <string>-Xmx64M</string>
 </array>
-
Exchange the above two string tags for :
+
Exchange the above two string tags for :
 <string>-Xms500M</string>
 <string>-Xmx1000M</string>
 
@@ -126,6 +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... +

+ Please Note: 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. +

Jalview doesn't start... What do the memory settings mean ? @@ -141,6 +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!

+

+ 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 Jalview + 256MB JNLP. +