Speed up the eclipse based designer

I felt that my LN 8.5 is like a snail. I searched for a solution. Here I am sharing it.

Close your Notes and open the notes program folder and browse the '\framework\rpc\deploy\jvm.properties' file. Open with text editor. Locate the following line:

vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx256m

Usually you can find this line at the beginning of the file. This is the factory default settings, and means how much memory can be allocated when your Lotus Notes is starting.

If you have only 2GB of RAM than set it between 256 and 768. If you have more than 2 GB than can be set for 1024.

vmarg.Xmx=-Xmx1024m

And now restart your Lotus Notes.

Picture resizing

My costumer asked me for a web-based picture resizing solution. It won't be a big issue... but nothing is so simply that looks at first sight. They have a hosted Domino server. In this case they have no ability to run agents with restricted rights. This was the challenge.

The solution: First I created a new application where the web users are submitting their new pictures. This application has a scheduled replication on a computer which is located at the office and always in use. The Lotus Notes has a preference under the Basic Notes Client Configuration for enabling scheduled local agents. I checked it in (thanks for LogMeIn). The "resizer" agent runs on the local machine.

Enabling the sched. local agents

Nowadays this environment works very well. Yes, the perfect solution is when the "resizer" agent running on a server (not for the user interact of-course), but they still paying 79 USD/month for the Domino Server (within a big iron). They are satisfied.