If you haven't increased the maximum memory available to your Lotus Notes JVM yet, what are you waiting for?
By default, the Notes JVM only has 256mb of memory available to it. On a system with 4GB+ of memory, you should be easily able to increase it to 1/4 to 1/3 of the system memory and improve the end user performance.
Here's how:
- Shut down Lotus Notes.
- In order to make sure that all processes are stopped, run this command:
- Start -> Run
- Type:
- C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Lotus\Notes\nsd.exe -kill
- Open:
- C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Lotus\Notes\framework\rcp\deploy\
- Open the "jvm.properties" file in a text editor like notepad. You will possibly require Administrator permissions.
- At the beginning of the file, you will see text surrounded by a lot of pound signs ####.
- The first ‘property’ after the last # sign is:
- vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx256m
- Change 256m to 1024m so that the line reads:
- vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx1024m
- Save your changes and close the file.
Restart your system, and experience the difference.