I’m trying to test my plug-in, but it always comes up with only 40MB and I keep getting out of memory error. If I change the setting, it doesn’t take it. It creates a brand new one with default value as shown below.

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I think what you are asking is that you want some default arguments to be populated automatically for each new PDE launch configuration.
You can do this:
Here’s a screenshot of the preferences page: