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crispin
Heap
May 28th, 2007, 8:07pm  
Hi,

I am running a large program in Processing, many graphics, a lot of data, etc. etc.
After I create a certain number of ArrayLists, the program becomes very slow and eventually crashes... I was thinking that this may be that the heap size is too low to handle all of the data (I believe 64mb is default).  Is there some easy way that I could increase it in processing?

Thanks a lot,
Crispin
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ddf
Re: Heap
Reply #1 - May 28th, 2007, 9:11pm  
Goto File >> Preferences or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+Comma and then check the box next to "Set maximum available memory to" and put a big number in the box (though not more than you have RAM).
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crispin
Re: Heap
Reply #2 - May 28th, 2007, 9:28pm  
Wow, thanks.  This has solved some big problems.  Will this setting be a part of my program, so that the heap size will be 256 on other computers as well? I hope so! Smiley

Cheers,
Crispin
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Bas
Re: Heap
Reply #3 - May 28th, 2007, 11:11pm  
That setting is stored locally on your computer (preferences.txt). It's an easy thing to change on other computers, like ddf said. CTRL+Comma Smiley
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crispin
Re: Heap
Reply #4 - May 29th, 2007, 1:04am  
Thanks for the reply Bas -

It is easy to change, however, I can't expect people running my application to be editing text files and changing numbers...

Is there any way to set the heap size automatically on other computers from my software?

Cheers,
C
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