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		aeyes on June 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flow browser passes the Acid tests > I can run Intellij Idea: Java IDE, load project with thousands of files into it and it won't eat 8 GB. I don't have the same experience, PyCharm is absolutely killing my machine and I always have it in Power Save mode. Sure, it isn't eating 8GB but that is because the JVM by default doesn't have that much available. I had to raise the memory limit considerably to be able to open my projects without it hanging.

jomohke on June 13, 2020 [–]

That’s not normal.

What plugins do you have installed? Maybe one is slowing it down?

And perhaps run “clear caches / restart” just in case there’s cache corruption

I run it fine on a Linux machine that has 4GB ram total — I’m curious how much memory you’re talking about.

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