After upgrade to 2017.3, IDEA (Scala project) frequently spikes to 600+ CPU for multiple minutes

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Running:

IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3.2 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-173.4127.27, built on December 25, 2017
JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-1024-b8 x86_64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Mac OS X 10.13.2

After upgrade to latest 2017.3, IntelliJ frequently spikes to 600+ CPU with no obvious activity.  I think this typically happens when the editor is brought to focus after a longer period of being in the background, but I haven't isolated a good consistent repro.  At that CPU usage, the software is essentially unusable for a few minutes. Other engineers on our codebase have reported similar symptoms. 

I'm not sure what other info to provide; we are on Scala-based projects with a fairly large codebase. latest Scala plugin. The above change occurred on the same codebase where older versions of IDEA did not have this problems.

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Please refer to https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/207241235. Report at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA with the logs, thread dumps and the CPU snapshot attached.

See if increasing the heap size helps (Help | Edit Custom VM Options).

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:facepalm:

yep, adding heap size helped. For anyone reading, bumped from 2gb to 4gb.  So far no more symptoms.

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