Modify the PDI client startup script

1. Exit from the PDI client if it is currently running.

2. Open the PDI client startup script with a text editor. The name of startup script depends on your operating system.

   • Windows Name and Location of Startup Script: pentaho/design-tools/data-integration/Spoon.bat

   • Linux Name and Location of Startup Script: pentaho/design-tools/data-integration/Spoon.sh

3. Modify the -Xmx value so that it specifies a larger upper memory limit.

   In this example, 2g (two gigabytes) of heap space has been allocated.

   PENTAHO_DI_JAVA_OPTIONS="-Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

4. Save and close the startup file.

5. Start the PDI client and ensure that there are no memory-related errors.

   If you see an error, repeat these steps to increase the memory again.

PDI client now has higher memory limits.