Increasing Memory Size on POS

Owned by Kevin Colaco
Last updated: Dec 03, 2016
1 min read

TO INCREASE THE MEMORY SIZE OF THE APPLICATION FROM 256 MB TO 512 MB.     

Please do the following in the POS.  

  1. Open C drive    
  2. Open the retailcloud folder  
  3. Open POSSytem folder  
  4. Select Execute (bat file) and go to File and click EDIT   
  5. Edit the execute.bat file and change the following line  
    1. java -Xmx256m -Xms256m -jar -classpath lib/ POSGUI.jar to java -Xmx512m -Xms512m -jar -classpath lib/ POSGUI.jar     
  6. Save the file and Close     
  7. Restart the application




US Open instruction Sept 2016



  1. 1. Open Notepad
    2. Drag a execute.bat file to the notepad
    3. update the below line ( change 256 to 1024 )
    start javaw -Xmx256m -Xms256m -jar %POS_HOME%\POSGUI.jar > logs/output.log 2> logs/error.log
    TO
    start javaw -Xmx1024m -Xms1024m -jar %POS_HOME%\POSGUI.jar > logs/output.log 2> logs/error.log
    4. save the notepad file
    5. Kill the javaw.exe from the taskmanager
    6. Open the POS app ( it should launch quick )