During Research for my last blog post I found an interesting feature of the designer. If the designer uses more than one gigabyte of heap memory, the display of the memory usage gets a bit fuzzy.

memorybar

Obviously somebody at TIBCO forgot to round the value, so it would fit into this small section of the status bar.

Keeping that in mind I found a start parameter which allows you to start the designer with an external window which only displays the current memory load.

memory-window2

As you can see this is much more useful then the default.

To get this you just have to start the designer with the following command:

./designer -memory

I wonder how much more (undocumented) functionality is hidden in the designer.