I couldn’t find a post on this in the forum…
This is the best tip I’ve seen on improving Notes 8 client performance. It’s worked really well for me.
In the jvm.properties file, I bumped my vmarg.Xmx to -Xmx768 and it was magic. My sluggish 8.0.2 client because very responsive. Thanks to Andrew and his source.
http://www.thenorth.com/apblog4.nsf/0/BB5DDB03611B2BB1852574D7005FF852