Increasing max memory available to SongKong 6.9 and earlier on Windows

[paultaylor]

Usually SongKong can run with arbitarily large music collections with the default memory settings. However some customers may occasionally hit OutOfMemoryException, also SongKong releases memory no longer required using a process called GarbageCollection, if you allocate a larger max memory level then the garbage collection can be done less often, and hence SongKong will run slightly faster.

• Because the file to be modified is stored under C:/Program Files you will not be able to save changes to it unless you configure shortcut to your editing program (e.g Notepad) to Run as Administrator

• Now open C:/Program Files/Jthink/SongKong/SongKong64.ini with the editor

• Modify the line that says:

  vm.heapsize.preferred=3000

  to

  vm.heapsize.preferred=x

  Where x is the amount to use as heap memory in MB, I would not recommend setting to higher than half your total memory, so to set it to 16GB set it as follows:

  vm.heapsize.preferred=16000

  and that will set the heap size to about that value

• You can check by looking at the status bar at the bottom right of the SongKong window