I am getting insane importing + indexing times wit...

# intellij

[andylamax]

I am getting insane importing + indexing times with intelliJ community. (its at 7 mins at the moment and its still going). This happens in a large kotlin multiplatform project with only jvm and js targets enabled, it has 50+ gradle submodules but something still tells me that indexing should't take that long

I have already enabled download shared indexes. Is there anything else I could do to improve intelliJ import time??

[andylamax]

Finished importing at 19min, 27 seconds, 171 ms

[Norbi]

Does it have enough heap memory?
I'm asking it because (based on my experience) imporing and indexing performance have improved a lot, I'm very satisfied with it in my project with lots of modules.

[andylamax]

I have org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx8192M -Dkotlin.daemon.jvm.options\="-Xmx4096M" in my gradle.properties files

[andylamax]

Unsure if that answers the heap question or not

[Norbi]

Check the Idea heap settings in the Help menu.

[andylamax]

MaxHepSize is set to 10240MiB

[Norbi]

Wow, OK, I don't think that insufficient heap is the root of the problem 😀

[andylamax]

what mporting times are you getting in your project?

[Norbi]

Around 20 seconds (I'm not at my desk but I will check the exact time later).
19 minutes is insanely slow, it's sure that there is some problem, maybe others can help more than I...

[andylamax]

Will keep asking around. But just one more question

Do you get 20 seconds on multiplatform projects? especially ones with JS target enabled?? Most time I see is spent on downloding node despite it being already present

[Norbi]

Yes, I have JVM, JS and also x86 native targets enabled on most "library" projects. Additional targets do not seem to increase importing time a lot (but they increase compilation time heavily, especially the native targets).

[andylamax]

Well, looks like something ain't right on my side then

[Norbi]

I checked on my project:
• Initial import: 46s
• Reload all Gradle projects: 6s
I have about 40 modules (currently enabled), most of them are multiplatform libraries, some of them are single-platform apps.

[andylamax]

Yeap, that not far from what I have as well

[andylamax]

May I know your version of intelliJ?

[Norbi]

the latest release version (2023.1.2)

[andylamax]

I am actually on 2023.2 EAP, but even 2023.1.2 gave me the same results

[Norbi]

Check the Idea logs, maybe you find something...

Most time I see is spent on downloding node despite it being already present

+ maybe ask in #javascript as well.

[andylamax]

will do so

[Norbi]

Just a thought: is your Kotlin version up-to-date? There were several performance improvements (and lots of bug fixes) in the 1.8.x versions, including the build tooling. I use 1.8.21 (1.8.22 does not compile with Windows native target for some reason 😞 ).

[andylamax]

Idea's kotlin plugin is 1.8.21, I am using 1.8.20 in my gradle scripts

[andylamax]

Let me see if pushing to 1.8.21 in gradle would help

[Marit van Dijk]

If you don't mind, would you please report your issue in YouTrack? https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241235-Reporting-performance-problems

[andylamax]

I would not mind at all

[andylamax]

Done reporting at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-322830/I-am-getting-insane-import-indexing-time. I hope this is comprehensive enough

[Marit van Dijk]

Thanks!