diff --git a/addon/YaCy.app/Contents/Info.plist b/addon/YaCy.app/Contents/Info.plist
index ecec6863c..b02b42e4b 100644
--- a/addon/YaCy.app/Contents/Info.plist
+++ b/addon/YaCy.app/Contents/Info.plist
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 	<key>Java</key>
 	<dict>
 		<key>VMOptions</key>
-		<string>-Xmx600m -Xms180m -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -XX:+UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</string>
+		<string>-Xmx600m -Xms180m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -XX:+UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</string>
 		<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
 		<string>$APP_PACKAGE/Contents/Resources/Java</string>
 		<key>MainClass</key>
diff --git a/addon/yacyInit.m4 b/addon/yacyInit.m4
index 7db5e1bd4..c866781f7 100644
--- a/addon/yacyInit.m4
+++ b/addon/yacyInit.m4
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=50
 # Default niceness if not set in config file
 NICE_VAL=0
 
-JAVA_ARGS="-server -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -XX:+UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
+JAVA_ARGS="-server -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit -XX:+UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
 #check if system supports large memory pages and enable it if possible
 HUGEPAGESTOTAL="$(cat /proc/meminfo | grep HugePages_Total | sed s/[^0-9]//g)"
 if [ -n "$HUGEPAGESTOTAL" ] && [ $HUGEPAGESTOTAL -ne 0 ]