Allocate more memory for Workday Studio

Workday Studio has been slow as heck on the Windows computer at my current company. It has been particularly slow at dealing with large XML files.

When I check the task manager in my computer, Studio isn't using nearly as much memory as I have available... why?

Well, turns out, there are some setting you can change.

I don't know yet if this really make a significant difference or is worth the effort. Big XML files still crash after the change. I can see the additional memory usage in Task Manager, but otherwise, shrug.

Default settings

If you can dig up the installation location of Workday Studio, somewhere in there is a file named eclipse.ini. There's a whole lot of stuff in there, but there are a few important lines:

-Xms512m
-Xmx4096m

• -Xms512m means Studio starts with 512 MB of memory.
• -Xmx4096 means Studio maxes out at 4 GB of memory.

New settings

With a modern computer, you could try out some more aggressive settings:

-Xms2g
-Xmx8g

• -Xms4g: Changed from 512m to 2g. Studio will now take 2 GB at launch.
• -Xmx8g: Changed from 4096m to 8g. This doubles the max ceiling to 8gb. If you have 32 GB+ of ram, you could even try 12 GB with -Xmx12g.