How to increase Memory for Pycharm : 3 quick Steps only

Are you looking for How to increase the Memory for Pycharm? Here are a few steps. Let’s go through them.  But before that close the Pycharm IDE / Application and restart after these steps.

How to increase Memory for Pycharm (Windows)-

Step 1 –

Go to the location on the disk where Pycharm is installed. For Windows user here is the default location.

Step 2-

Go to bin directory and open file pycharm64.exe.vmoptions .

This file contains the configuration related to memory area like heap size limit etc. By defaults, it looks like –

Xms128m
-Xmx750m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=240m
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50
-ea
-Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
-Djdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes=""
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow

Steps 3 –

Change the value for -Xmx750m  by -Xmx1024m or -Xmx2048m or as per your requirement. Now you may restart the Pycharm. That’s all.

Another way –

You may do it internally from IDE Pycharm itself. All you need to Go Help ->Find Action ->Edit Custom VM option. It will open the same file as you see in step 3 above. Change the values here and restart the Pycharm.

How it Impact?

Actually Pycharm’s source code is in java. It will increase the memory size for the heap of JVM ( max limit ). This will enhance the memory limit for Pycharm.

Thanks 

Data Science Learner Team