diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ea573e6..c9c854b 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: dssrip2
 Title: DSS R Interface Project (2)
-Version: 0.8-0
+Version: 0.8-1
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Michael", "Koohafkan", , "michael.c.koohafkan@usace.army.mil", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Evan", "Heisman", , "evan.a.heisman@usace.army.mil", role = c("aut")),
diff --git a/R/initialize.r b/R/initialize.r
index 59f80ab..41ca105 100644
--- a/R/initialize.r
+++ b/R/initialize.r
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ dss_connect = function(dss_home = getOption("dss.home"),
   assign("DSS_CONNECTED", TRUE, hecJavaConnectionDB)
 
   # check JVM memory
-  java_mem = J("java.lang.Runtime")$getRuntime()$totalMemory()*1e-6
+  java_mem = J("java.lang.Runtime")$getRuntime()$maxMemory() * 1e-6
   if (java_mem < 1000 && isFALSE(quietly)) {
     warning("JVM was initialized with less than 1GB total memory ",
       "which is likely not sufficient for DSS file operations. ",
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 42c0bc3..516a72e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ You can install the `{dssrip2}` directly using
 remotes::install_github("mkoohafkan/dssrip2")
 ```
 
+To build the vignettes on install, use the argument `build_vignettes = TRUE`.
+
 ### Monolith
 
 `{dssrip2}` can connect to HEC-Monolith libraries using