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It might be easier for users to adjust a setting in the IDE than to edit a certain file that is part of product instalation. Obviously change in this setting will be applied after restart.
+1 Maybe this should be part of the Setup Wizard, just like proxy settings. We could also have a more sophisticated approach by looking at the actual IDE memory consumption for each run and upon IDE shutdown, adjust the -Xms setting (maybe with a "never decrease" policy).
Mostly performance related. Passing to Petr N.