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lbruun updated NETBEANS-149:
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    Description: 
A thing that have always annoyed me when creating applications on NetBeans 
Platform is that the max heap size is defined explicitly in the {{app.conf}} to 
64 MB. As a default value, this is much too low.

I don't know why the value was set. Apparently (from Mecurial's histyory) it 
dates back to 2005. Perhaps the idea is that if setting a ridiculously low 
value it will force the developer to change his application's {{myapp.conf}} 
file?  But I'm guessing this wasn't the intention, even in 2005.

Suggesting to remove both the min and the max heap from this file to make 
adoption of Platform easier for newbies and give them less surprises.

(note: The 64 MB limit doesn't effect the IDE as it uses its own customized 
version of the {{.conf}} file)


  was:
One of the things that have always annoyed me when creating applications on 
NetBeans Platform is that the max heap size is defined explicitly in the 
{{app.conf}} to 64 MB. As a default value, this is much too low.

I don't know why the value was set. Apparently (from Mecurial's histyory) it 
dates back to 2005. Perhaps the idea is that if setting a ridiculously low 
value it will force the developer to change his application's {{myapp.conf}} 
file?  But I'm guessing this wasn't the intention, even in 2005.

Suggesting to remove both the min and the max heap from this file to make 
adoption of Platform easier for newbies and give them less surprises.

(note: The 64 MB limit doesn't effect the IDE as it uses its own customized 
version of the {{.conf}} file)



> Standard Max Heap Size is 64m - way too small
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>
>                 Key: NETBEANS-149
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-149
>             Project: NetBeans
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: lbruun
>            Assignee: lbruun
>            Priority: Trivial
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>
> A thing that have always annoyed me when creating applications on NetBeans 
> Platform is that the max heap size is defined explicitly in the {{app.conf}} 
> to 64 MB. As a default value, this is much too low.
> I don't know why the value was set. Apparently (from Mecurial's histyory) it 
> dates back to 2005. Perhaps the idea is that if setting a ridiculously low 
> value it will force the developer to change his application's {{myapp.conf}} 
> file?  But I'm guessing this wasn't the intention, even in 2005.
> Suggesting to remove both the min and the max heap from this file to make 
> adoption of Platform easier for newbies and give them less surprises.
> (note: The 64 MB limit doesn't effect the IDE as it uses its own customized 
> version of the {{.conf}} file)



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