How to Increase Memory or Heap Size in Studio 3T

Heap size is the amount of memory allocated to run any given application.

You can increase the heap size in Studio 3T by making changes to the vmoptions file.

On Windows, the vmoptions file is located in:

C:/Program Files/3T Software Labs/Studio 3T

Go to the Studio 3T folder and choose the Studio3T.vmoptions file.

On Mac OS X, you need to go to Applications and right-click on Studio 3T and choose Show Package Contents, which should open the Contents folder.

On Linux, the file is located in:

 ~/studio3t/Studio-3T.vmoptions

The maximum heap size is declared in the -Xmx part, located on the third line:

Other parameters used to control heap size are:

• -Xms – Specifies the initial heap size
• -Xss – Sets the thread stack size

To increase the heap size in Studio 3T, update the -Xmx line using the accepted notation or syntax:

• -Xmx4096m or –Xmx4096M
• -Xmx4g or -Xmx4G