Performance anxiety
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Hi.
I have just installed IDEA and PyCharm and am starting to wonder is my laptop too poor to handle these IDEs
Inten N3700 1.6 GHz, 4G RAM, Win 10. I know it's by no means a powerhouse but IDEA is lagging heavily even when I'm typing the code, not to mention running or debugging it. Using anything else along it, like a browser to watch a tutorial, skype etc slows my PC to halt and makes me wonder if I'm out of my league.
Any tips for speeding it up or should I switch to something else until I uprgrade?
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I'd disable Windows Defender, see:
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005028939-Slow-startup-on-Windows-splash-screen-appears-in-more-than-20-seconds
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006298560-Antivirus-Impact-on-Build-Speed .
Disable the plug-ins you don't need: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/enabling-and-disabling-plugins.html .
Try using the Power Save mode in the File menu.
4GB is too low for comfortable work, the main issue is probably with the swapping due to the lack of RAM.
Thanks. I did that and it's a bit more bearable.