How to increase Memory for Pycharm : 3 quick Steps only

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

How to increase Memory for Pycharm-

Step 1 –

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

How to increase Memory for Pycharm 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 memory limit for Pycharm .

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Data Science Learner Team