I just updated to Idea 2016.3.2. And keep getting this error.
There is not enough memory to perform the requested operation. Please increase 'Xmx' setting and restart the IDE for change to take effect.
The last thing i did was to increase the Xmx memory option to 2048 in the idea.vmoptions file (as instructed by this answer How to increase IDE memory limit in IntelliJ IDEA on Mac?)
But it keeps runing out of memory still.
Does anyone know what I need to do?
... after looking into it some more it now seems to me like it's a git process that causes the memory failure. initiated when I open a git managed project.
Excerp from log:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3332) at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.ensureCapacityInternal(AbstractStringBuilder.java:124) at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:448) at java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:136) at git4idea.history.GitHistoryUtils$2.onLineAvailable(GitHistoryUtils.java:579) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor129.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at com.intellij.util.EventDispatcher.dispatch(EventDispatcher.java:99) at com.intellij.util.EventDispatcher.access$200(EventDispatcher.java:35) at com.intellij.util.EventDispatcher$2.invoke(EventDispatcher.java:79) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy123.onLineAvailable(Unknown Source) at git4idea.commands.GitLineHandler.notifyLine(GitLineHandler.java:144) at git4idea.commands.GitLineHandler.notifyLines(GitLineHandler.java:106) at git4idea.commands.GitLineHandler.onTextAvailable(GitLineHandler.java:74) at git4idea.commands.GitTextHandler$1.onTextAvailable(GitTextHandler.java:90) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor72.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at com.intellij.execution.process.ProcessHandler$4.invoke(ProcessHandler.java:226) at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy16.onTextAvailable(Unknown Source) at com.intellij.execution.process.ProcessHandler.notifyTextAvailable(ProcessHandler.java:200) at com.intellij.execution.process.BaseOSProcessHandler$SimpleOutputReader.onTextAvailable(BaseOSProcessHandler.java:290) at com.intellij.util.io.BaseOutputReader.sendText(BaseOutputReader.java:202) at com.intellij.util.io.BaseOutputReader.processInput(BaseOutputReader.java:186) at com.intellij.util.io.BaseOutputReader.readAvailableBlocking(BaseOutputReader.java:140) at com.intellij.util.io.BaseDataReader.readAvailable(BaseDataReader.java:82) at com.intellij.util.io.BaseDataReader.doRun(BaseDataReader.java:160) at com.intellij.util.io.BaseDataReader$1.run(BaseDataReader.java:61) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) 2017-01-04 10:16:01,967 [ 393766] ERROR - .intellij.util.EventDispatcher - IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3.2 Build IU-163.10154.41 2017-01-04 10:16:01,967 [ 393766] ERROR - .intellij.util.EventDispatcher - JDK: 1.8.0_112-release 2017-01-04 10:16:01,967 [ 393766] ERROR - .intellij.util.EventDispatcher - VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 2017-01-04 10:16:01,967 [ 393766] ERROR - .intellij.util.EventDispatcher - Vendor: JetBrains s.r.o 2017-01-04 10:16:01,967 [ 393766] ERROR - .intellij.util.EventDispatcher - OS: Mac OS X 2017-01-04 10:16:01,971 [ 393770] ERROR - .intellij.util.EventDispatcher - Last Action: EditCustomVmOptions 2017-01-04 10:16:03,231 [ 395030] ERROR - .intellij.util.EventDispatcher - Java heap space
