Reduce memory consumption in development

Question

When I'm developing my project I have 3+ jvm instances running.

• $ lein garden auto
• $ lein cljsbuild auto
• $ lein datomic start
• cider repl
• cider brepl

With firefox open for a few days I get pretty close to maxing out my 8gb of ram. How can I reduce memory consumption?

Answer 1

while invoking the JVM, you could set the maximum size to be used

e.g -Xmx1024m -Xms1024m would use only 1GB of ram

Hope it helps regards