# Increase the PDI client memory limit

We recommend that you increase PDI's memory limit so the Pentaho Server and the PDI client (Spoon) can perform memory-intensive tasks, like process or sort large datasets or run complex transformations and jobs. You will need to increase the memory limit for both the Pentaho Server and the PDI client. If you choose to not increase the memory limit, PDI uses the default memory settings that are defined in your startup scripts.

**Note:** Instead of modifying the PDI client startup script, you can also set the environment variable *PENTAHO\_DI\_JAVA\_OPTIONS* equal to *-Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=256m* on your client.


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