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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by frik on Sunday January 03, 2016 @02:24AM (#10829833)
To speed up IntelliJ products, immediately open Settings -> Directories and exclude all unnecessary folders. Otherwise a crawler background process will indexes every file, and it consumes a lot of CPU and IO resources.
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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by reitzensteinm on Sunday January 03, 2016 @02:55AM (#10829894)
In one extreme example, my project was a scraper that scraped in 80k images or so, and IntelliJ was essentially unusable until I did this (16 gig of ram, SSD, i7 quad core etc), and completely fine afterwards.

So if anyone is having performance problems, please do check this out.

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by rugdobe on Sunday January 03, 2016 @11:59AM (#10831241)
what kind of scraping project was it?
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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by reitzensteinm on Sunday January 03, 2016 @01:18PM (#10831547)
Steam sales - I posted it here a while back. Clojure + Reagent site - http://www.hydralist.com
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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by BurningFrog on Sunday January 03, 2016 @12:01PM (#10831247)
In my RubyMine, it's named "Project Structure".

Excluding the log directory is extra important. It's empty when you create the project, but will probably keep growing and gradually slow everything down the more you work.

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by mark_l_watson on Sunday January 03, 2016 @09:13AM (#10830651)
Great advice! I need to exclude large data-only folders in my project directories and if I sometimes forget to do this then the IDE is not as performant.
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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by djhworld on Sunday January 03, 2016 @04:49AM (#10830077)
Got any more detailed instructions for this? I'm running the OSX version of IntelliJ, I can't see this option anywhere
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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by frik on Sunday January 03, 2016 @04:53AM (#10830086)
File -> Settings -> search for "direct"

Depending on the product version the settings dialog is a bit different: https://www.google.com/#q=intellij+exclude+folders

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by spdionis on Sunday January 03, 2016 @08:11AM (#10830466)
Right click the directory -> mark directory as -> excluded.
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