How to give Jenkins more heap space when it´s started as a service?

Question

I want to increase the available heap space for Jenkins. But as it is installed as a service I don´t know how to do it.

Answer 1

In your Jenkins installation directory there is a jenkins.xml, where you can set various options. Add the parameter -Xmx with the size you want to the arguments-tag (or increase the size if its already there).