I have a PIII 866 with 396 Meg of RAM. I recently felt my keyboard was getting worn out, but I now realize it is IDEA which refuses to output characters as they are typed - it is obviously occupied elsewhere.
This is getting really annoying. The overall GUI speed is still quite ok, but this typing delay is bad Michael Descher wrote: > I have a dual 800 MHz Pentium III at home as well. I have 1 GB RAM and > have set IDEA to use a maximum of 384 MB. I can work quite well with > these settings. At work I have a single 1,6 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB > RAM and have tried to set IDEA to use a maximum of 192 MB. Whenever > IDEA reached the limit I can see lots of swapping activity. When > garbage collection forces disk swapping it takes very long to complete > and that produces a huge slowdown. Always remeber that Windows itself > takes lots of memory as well (maybe you don't use Windows), the VM > process takes additional memory and all other applications you are > running as well, so 512 MB fill up quite easily when giving IDEA a > maximum of about 200 MB for example. > > Michael > > On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:54:49 -0700 (PDT), Ionut Dogarel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>My machine is a dual CPU Pentium III at 800MHz with >>500 megs of RAM. SCSI hard drives and so on. This is >>not the latest hardware but it IS a fast enough box. >>Sadly, it is not good enough for Idea 642. >> >>I am not sure if this was said or not, but you don't >>have an IDE without an editor. And the editor hardly >>does its job. As Michael said below, you can not even >>type. I don't care the IDE is the best in the world if >>I can not type in it. Do you see the point? >> >>Hope that the next version makes the difference, >>Ionut >> >> >> >> >> >> >>--- Michael Morett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>My machine is a Pentium II with 512MB memory running >>>1JDK .4._01 and W2K. >>> >>>Let me try to rephrase my thoughts since I sense I >>>might be misinterpreted. >>> >>>With IDEA up and running, it should never pause when >>>I start typing or >>>scrolling up and down the page. It really is that >>>simple. That is my main >>>concern. I am not talking about pausing to perform >>>an autocomplete of >>>syntax. I just dont know what IDEA is "thinking >>>about" when I start typing. >>>I haven't asked it to do anything. I am just trying >>>to type. >>> >>>To make matters worse, it seems very responsive when >>>I first load it, but >>>throughout the day, it gets progressively worse. >>>This leads to slow delays >>>when I click on the various tabs (Structure, >>>Project, Ant Build, Find, >>>etc.). >>> >>>I'm getting killed on this forum with many people >>>debating my notion of >>>"editor" vs. IDE. For all intents and purposes, I >>>could fire up IDEA to cut >>>a memo. Not that I would, mind you, but the very >>>act of typing causes >>>delays. I just dont see how this is possible. >>> >>>This might be attributed to Swing. I am not placing >>>blame on the >>>programmers at IntelliJ. I am just making an >>>observation. And venting >>>frustration when I see a 3 second delay upon >>>pressing the backspace key. >>> >>>:-) >>> >>>"Erik Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>>akod56$41c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:akod56$41c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >>> >>>>"Michael Morett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >>> >>>message >>> >>>>akm7oi$ptp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:akm7oi$ptp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >>>> >>>>>Erik, >>>>> >>>>>my friend...buy a new computer to use an IDE? >>>> >>>>Yeah, I figured I was spending 80% of my day using >>> >>>IDEA, so I might as >>>well >>> >>>>optimize my environment for it. There are some >>> >>>costs associated with >>>writing >>> >>>>software, and one of them is having a fast >>> >>>machine. >>> >>>> >>>>>can i place the order on dell.com and you pick >>>> >>>up the tab? >>> >>>>If you are developing software for money, then >>> >>>hopefully your company (or >>> >>>>client or whatever) would want to buy you a fast >>> >>>machine to make you more >>> >>>>productive. If you are developing software for >>> >>>fun, then it's obviously >>> >>>>harder to justify buying new hardware. (But on the >>> >>>bright side, at least >>>you >>> >>>>aren't making films as a hobby. That would be >>> >>>really expensive... :) If >>>you >>> >>>>are developing software for fun, perhaps you need >>> >>>to make a choice between >>> >>>>buying a new computer or reverting to an older EAP >>> >>>or the 2.6 release >>> >>>>version. I certainly wouldn't want to go back now >>> >>>that I'm used to all the >>> >>>>great recent features, but at least you'd be able >>> >>>to type... >>> >>>> >>>>>i know you're half kidding about this >>>> >>>suggestion. To your point "But its >>> >>>>>basic mission is not to simply edit files. Its >>>> >>>mission is to introduce >>> >>>>some >>>> >>>>>intelligence into a development environment, and >>>> >>>I think it does a great >>> >>>>>job." >>>>> >>>>>It can't introduce intelligence to anything >>>> >>>unless I am allowed to type >>>it >>> >>>>>in first. It can't refactor code that isn't >>>> >>>there. >>> >>>>Well that's true. I guess if it's too slow to type >>> >>>anything, it's not >>>worth >>> >>>>much. Luckilly, the beta cycle is nearing an end >>> >>>(supposedly), so we >>>should >>> >>>>start seeing performance improvements soonish. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Eap-features mailing list >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> >>http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features >> >> >>__________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Yahoo! 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