Does anyone have any good tips to get the very bes...
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jeggy
07/29/2020, 8:40 PMDoes anyone have any good tips to get the very best performance out of IntelliJ?
I have a Desktop with 32 cores and 64 GB RAM and would love to just give IntelliJ the right configuration so it would be incredibly fast. 😛
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
07/29/2020, 8:45 PMI think the only way to get IntelliJ to be fast is to use vim. 😉
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jeggy
07/29/2020, 8:49 PMIt feels like when running for example Android Studio they perform way better on standard auto-complete stuff. While IntelliJ is slower. I have a huge monorepo which I would like nice and fast auto-completion. which maybe is too much to ask for?
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Horv
07/29/2020, 8:53 PMYou could try to create a ramdisk and run IntelliJ from there. Might give some performance boost? 🤔
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
07/29/2020, 8:54 PMPut your code in the ramdisk too
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jeggy
07/29/2020, 8:58 PMthe whole thing is already on SSD, you think that would do any improvements?
jeggy
07/29/2020, 8:59 PMwas just thinking if there were some JVM options or something I could play with. I know there are the xms and xmx options, but that's where my JVM options knowledge stops 😛
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kevindmoore
07/29/2020, 10:24 PMGo to the Help -> Edit Custom VM Options. Make changes to the memory settings and then restart.
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asad.awadia
07/30/2020, 9:52 AMLeave it running for a few days
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napperley
07/30/2020, 10:12 PM@jeggy - What CPU is used (is it an AMD Ryzen)? Which OS is being run on the desktop?
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