# Increasing Memory Size

#### TO INCREASE THE MEMORY SIZE OF THE APPLICATION FROM 256 MB TO 512 MB.    &#x20;

Please do the following in the POS. &#x20;

1. Open C drive   &#x20;
2. Open the retailcloud folder &#x20;
3. Open POSSytem folder &#x20;
4. Select Execute (bat file) and go to File and click EDIT  &#x20;
5. Edit the execute.bat file and change the following line &#x20;
   1. java -Xmx256m -Xms256m -jar -classpath lib/ POSGUI.jar to java -Xmx512m -Xms512m -jar -classpath lib/ POSGUI.jar    &#x20;
6. Save the file and Close    &#x20;
7. Restart the application

US Open instruction Sept 2016

1. Open Notepad
2. Drag a execute.bat file to the notepad3
3. Update the below line ( change 256 to 1024 )start javaw -Xmx256m -Xms256m -jar %POS\_HOME%\POSGUI.jar > logs/output.log 2> logs/error.logTOstart 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 )![](https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif)
