What's the right way to increase heap size?

[loonsailor]

I just switched over to v7. Looks great! But, my java heap monitor plugin shows the heap as being dangerously full. What is the "approved" way to increase it? In v6, I did so by editing startsage, but of course that got overwritten by the update and, in any case, just seems wrong. In v7, I could do it by editing startsagecore but, once again, that seems kind of ugly.

Is there a better place to override the default heap size?

I'm running on linux, on the unlikely chance that it matters.

Thanks.

[jptheripper]

You can increase the max memory size for SageTV by creating this registry
setting as a DWORD:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\SageTV\JVMMaxHeapSizeMB

Go to start, run and type in regedit. Go to this path
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\SageTV\ and right click on the
SageTV folder and select New - DWORD Value. Name it "JVMMaxHeapSizeMB"
without the quotes and hit enter.

Set the value in MB (MegaBytes). 0 means use the default, which is 192MB.

Try setting it to 384MB and then it should be fine. If you have LOTS of RAM
then you can set it even higher if you want.

(this is response from George. mine is now set at 1024MB)

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by loonsailor

I just switched over to v7. Looks great! But, my java heap monitor plugin shows the heap as being dangerously full. What is the "approved" way to increase it? In v6, I did so by editing startsage, but of course that got overwritten by the update and, in any case, just seems wrong. In v7, I could do it by editing startsagecore but, once again, that seems kind of ugly.

Is there a better place to override the default heap size?

I'm running on linux, on the unlikely chance that it matters.

Thanks.

In sage7, you can use a sagesettings file in the same dir as startsage. This file is sourced by the startsage/stopsage scripts, and you can put any of the variables here that you would normally put/edit in the startsage script.

My scripts looks like this...

PIDFILE=sagetv.pid
HEADLESS=false
JAVAMEM=-Xmx784m

I tell the PIDFILE to write to the current dir because I run sage as a normal user.
HEADLESS is there so that can run studio
JAVAMEM is where you put your mem args

[loonsailor]

That does it. Thanks for the prompt help.