Tuning Image Processing Application Memory for Insight Studio and Administrator Tools

Insight Studio and the Administrator Tools have been optimized to support the most common image file size, 20-30 megabyte uncompressed files. If you encounter an error during the processing of an image that has an uncompressed file size greater than 30 megabytes, you may need to allocate more memory.
By default, 130 megabytes have been allocated to Insight Studio and the Administrator Tools. This will support most situations. However you can allocate more memory to accommodate larger images. The general rule is to quadruple the uncompressed file size to determine how much memory should be allocated.
Both Insight Studio and the Administrator Tools will use all the memory you allocate to it, so be sure the memory you give it is real memory. If you have a system that has 256MB of free memory and you grant 512MB, both applications will process an 80MB file without error but the system will be very slow.
The following chart will help you in identifying your new memory settings.
Table 7: Suggested Memory Allocations for Insight Studio and the Administrator Tools

To adjust your memory allocation:

1. Locate the directory where Insight Studio or the Administrator Tools is installed.

2. Open the "Insight Studio 6.3.lax" file or the "Administrator Tools 6.3.lax" file using a text editor (notepad on Windows).

3. In the file locate the following line:

lax.nl.java.option.java.heap.size.max=

1. You will see a number following this parameter.

2. Change the number to the appropriate size in bytes as shown in the previous table.

1. Save the file.

1. Restart Insight Studio or the Administrator Tools.