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Giving More Memory to Aptana

dennis 2 comments Web Stuff

Sep 10

The one major complaint I’ve had with Aptana on OS X is that it’s super-slow. I’m running a 1.67GHz Powerbook w/ 2GB RAM and it still brings my system to a screeching hault. I’ve been digging around trying to allocate more memory to the Java VM and finally got it working today. This is something I’ve done in the past on Windows, but wasn’t sure how to approach this on my Mac. I read in the forums that the VM arguments are maintained in Aptana.ini and I searched for a good thirty minutes trying to find this file. After right-clicking Aptana.app a few times I finally stumbled across the Show Package Contents option:

aptana_memory_allocation.png

This was the magic trick. Within this package (folder) you’ll need to browse to Contents/MacOS/Aptana.ini. Open it up and specify the appropriate memory values. On my system I’m currently running:

-Xms256m
-Xmx768m

It appears to be running smoother although not as well as I’d like. I guess at some point I’ll need to go MacBook, but I can live with this for now. Hopefully this tip will save somebody a few minutes of frustration.

2 comments

  1. Jason / June 23, 2011

    Thanks for the tip! I had the same problem and making this change really made a huge difference in performance. I figured it was a jvm issue I’d have to track down, but your posting cuts right to the chase and solved my issue for me.

  2. admin / June 24, 2011

    Not a problem. Glad to hear things are running much better for you now!

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