Re:IntelliJ IDEA 14.1
by brianwawok on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @10:45AM
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I would actually set Xms == Xmx, as you can easily fill up your entire heap... why let the JVM manage total heap size in a tool when you can predict the heap size? (For the record I use ~2g Xms and Xmx for Java projects, and ~3g Xms and Xmx for Scala projects).
Also you can ditch MaxPermSize if using Java8, which you should.
* change the default launcher to use the idea64.exe instead of idea.exe
* increase the default vm allocation in bin/idea64.vmoptions
-Xms668m -Xmx1692m -XX:MaxPermSize=412m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=246m
* disable the "SuperFetch" service of windows 8 and reboot