censhare-Clients: Change Memory Allocation

Introduction

If you want to change the default memory allocation of the censhare-Client, please read below.

also valid for censhareAdmin and censhareRenderer
setup identically at censhareClient v2, v3 and v4
For Java 11 clients do not try to define this in [JVMOptionsUser] as this will not be recognized

Mac OSX

Right click on the application file named censhareClient(.app) and choose Show Package Contents (german: Paketinhalt zeigen).

Change to directory "Contents".

Open the file named Info.plist in a text editor (f.e. TextWrangler).

Go to the following line and change the "-Xmx" property:

 <string>-Xms256m -Xmx1024m -ea:com.censhare...</string>

CODE

The property –Xmx stands for the maximum memory, which the client can allocate.
After a client restart the change will be active.

Mac OSX Java11

See steps above but open the file in .app/Contents/Java/censhare Client.cfg

Here go to:

[JVMOptions] -Xms256m -Xmx4096m

CODE

Windows

Open the file "censhare Client.lap", which you can find at the same directory layer as the application file "censhare Client.exe".

Go to the following line and change the "-Xmx" property

--- snip ---
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
--- snap ---

CODE

The property –Xmx stands for the maximum memory, which the client can allocate.
After a client restart the change will be active.