I keep on trying to increase the heap size inside of android studio, but the memory remains the same, anyone know why? Thanks in advance !
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What Android studio do you have? how much RAM do you have, how big heap size are you trying to set up? – isaaaaame Feb 26 '19 at 14:33
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Maybe Android Studio doesn't need it. Did it ever max out? – devgianlu Feb 26 '19 at 14:37
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We can't know what you might have done wrong since you haven't shown us exactly what you did. – Michael Feb 26 '19 at 14:38
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Why do you want to increase heap size ? Did you experience OutOfMemory or something related ? – Benoit Feb 26 '19 at 14:50
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@isaaaaame The latest version, I have 16 gb ram, the heap is stuck at 494 i wanna give it at least 2 gb – Rabih Kadi Feb 26 '19 at 17:31
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@devgianlu yes it did several times while i was working – Rabih Kadi Feb 26 '19 at 17:31
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@Benoit it keeps on reminding me that its running on low memory and crashes sometimes – Rabih Kadi Feb 26 '19 at 17:31
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@Michael i kind of tried everything :/ – Rabih Kadi Feb 26 '19 at 17:31
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@RabihKadi really important question: have you saved it after editing the settings? – isaaaaame Feb 27 '19 at 09:24
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1@isaaaaame yes i did, turns out i had to change the path also, thanks all anyways ! – Rabih Kadi Feb 27 '19 at 12:08
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Click on Help -> Edit Custom VM Options.... If you don't have any VM options created, it'll prompt you to create one, accept it. Add / modify -Xmx with amount and type of data you want, like -Xmx8g for 8gb of heap. You should restart Android Studio afterwards so it'll take effect.
Edit: For more information about studio options, take a look at here.
Edit 2: If you have a problem with jps, make sure you added up $PATH for java home. See more details on this answer.
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That's quite weird. Just to test it out, can you save your VM options to elsewhere then clear out everything except `-XmX` option, and restart ? – Mel Feb 26 '19 at 14:47
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Can you try to execute `jps -lvm` in Android Studio console after changing ? Take a look at here so you'll see what to expect after executing it, to confirm your heap changes: https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/studio-config.html – Mel Feb 26 '19 at 14:50
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that's the weirdest part, that jps -lvm is unrecognizable on the console ! – Rabih Kadi Feb 26 '19 at 17:32
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May you check if you have set `$PATH` for Java home ? Take a look at here -> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11286669/jps-not-working – Mel Feb 27 '19 at 10:36
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I'm glad it helped, I'll update the answer accordingly. If you mark it as an accepted answer, it may help others who end up here. Cheers ! – Mel Feb 27 '19 at 13:35