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It would be great if there were an option in the project window that would allow the developer to change the maximum memory a program launched from the NetBeans IDE would be able to access. At the moment, I need to run my memory hogging programs from the command line because NetBeans is throwing OutOFMemory errors when I ren them from the IDE.
You can set VM arguments for the executor.