Pycharm 2017.1.2 memory use of 350Mb - whazzup?
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Pycharm 2017.1.2 uses of 350Mb in win7. This is rather mad!!
I expect this from Eclipse but why is Pycharm using so much memory.
Refactor Refactor Refactor Refactor!!!
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Hi Pierre! PyCharm system requirements is 1GB of RAM. The exact memory usage depends on the project size and tasks performed. Intellectual highlighting, indexing, autocomplete, plugins and so on are the reason. If the previous version had a much lower memory usage for you with the same project please feel free to record a memory snapshot https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241235-Reporting-performance-problems and create a ticket at out tracker https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues
A whole Gig, OMG!
Thanks for your reply,but you did not really answer why PyCharm is such a memory hogg.
I do not even have a project but just open one .py file of 80 LOC. Do the test your self. Why should I open another ticket, this is one.
Example opening the same file in Qt Creator uses 100Mb of memory. In Eclipse it look more like Pycharm and even worse like we can expect from Eclipse.
I really think PyCharm can do much better on memory dependencies in the handling of their highlighting, indexing, autocomplete because it is really a nice tool to use.
PyCharm creates a temporary project to open one file as a current implementations so it is not a cheapest operation unfortunately. I have ~200Mb on my Windows machine with ~100 lines file opened in PyCharm. Memory snapshot should hep to investigate any anomalies in the usage.
Dev team tries to maximise the performance but it's always a tradeoff between functionality and speed.