Very slow debugger in pycharm

Hi, it seems like a bug which needs to be investigated, and forums seems to be not the best place for it. Could you please submit a support request (https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/?pycharm) and provide:

1.  Logs from **Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data** after reproducing the issue

2. Code sample and steps to reproduce if possible

3. Does the issue reproduce when running without debugger? 

4. Please add `PYCHARM_DEBUG=True` env variable to your run/debug configuration, reproduce the issue, and provide full console output. 

any update with this?  I am running 2020.2 and it's so slow in debug mode.  orders of magnitude slower.  

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I'm also seeing this in 2020.2 for linux.  The behavior I see is that the initial load-in for the debugger takes over 20 seconds.  This was much faster in 2018 version of pycharm.

When I look at htop I see a single core just getting maxed but little to no activity on any other cores.  Was this threaded before? 

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This happens to us as well. A full tests session take around 15 minutes for us, but with the debugger on it is 150-300 minutes long.

Indeed, I see a single process at 100% CPU on a single core. All the other processes, as well as cores, are at very low CPU usage.

This ticket helped me: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-44270 (currently it does not have a lot of info about the actual issue)

2019.3.5: 18sec

2020.2.1 (with "Drop into debugger on failed tests" enabled): 60sec

2020.2.1 (with "Drop into debugger on failed tests" disabled): 22sec

I have also found that the debugger has become very slow. I'm using PyCharm Pro 2020.2.

@Ocoming Soon - thanks for the comparison between versions. 

This matches my impression that the Drop into debugger on failed tests must be doing tons of work prior to running the tests.  Before 2020.2.1 i was using 2018 version so this feature was the "Newest" thing I noticed.

I reverted back to 2018 because I don't have time to deal with 2020.2.1 issues right now.  Looking forward to smooth sailing when stuff like this is fixed

I am not sure what's going on, but executing my code step by step in PyCharm is extremely slow, it takes about 10 minutes to execute a line like this:

wb = load_workbook('K:/Contacts.xlsx')

and if I stop the code with a breakpoint there and execute the same line in the console instead, it takes just a couple seconds.

Also just noticed now in PyCharm 2020.2

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Also I am experiencing the same issue on Mac for PyCharm 2020.2. Crazily slow debugging to the point that I cannot debug.

I solved my problem just by changing the version of the python I was using from 3.7 to 3.8. I do not know maybe my python 3.7 was buggy.

I've unticked "Drop into debugger on failed tests" and ticked "Gevent compatible" and it's now working properly

Has anyone tried going back to an older version of pycharm? did that work for you?

I reinstalled the older version and it worked fine. I still mostly use the new version as the debugger is only slow with some tests. For most of my work, it’s fine.

See also https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/requests/2889478

Alessio That link gave me a 404.

Oh, I guess that issue is visible only to me then.

In any case, this is the case that was created on YouTrack: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-44803?_ga=2.242078978.1658792144.1601896315-899772060.1468913181

This should be publicly visible.

Thanks, I have added a comment to the YouTrack issue and voted for it.

Hi, this happened to me (PyCharm 2019.3) and it was caused by invalid breakpoints -> delete all breakpoints and make sure you haven't got a breakpoint on Exception "raise".  Once I did that PyCharm debugging went back to normal speed

Removing Python Debugger -> Drop into debugger on failed tests  flag solved for me.

Pycharm 2020.2.3. Disabling `Drop into debugger on failed tests` indeed expedites the tests, however a) not enough and b) i lose the debugger. Running a single test suite, with 1 test directly via `pytest` in docker container executes in 26s. Running via PyCharm debug without `Drop into debugger on failed tests` executes in 57s. Running via PyCharm with `Drop into debugger on failed tests` executes in 137s (and sometimes it just hangs there until i terminate it). 

Experiencing the same problem. I'm working with datasets splitted into 200MB dataframes with 1mio data instances, in jupyter notebook this is handled very fast and in PyCharm Debugger I'm waiting like for ever for each line of code. 

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Same problem with older versions - I've thought it will be more efficient to work with an IDE like PyCharm than Jupyter Notebook, but if my 3900X + 64GB RAM is not enough to Debug a simple Python program...

you could use  https://pypi.org/project/pytest-pycharm/  instead of  `Drop into debugger on failed tests` ;)

I have 2 external monitors on PC and if I unplug or disable one debugger works normal, but if you want to work with 2 monitors add in Help ->  Edit Custom VM Options : 

-Dsun.java2d.opengl=false
-Dsun.java2d.uiscale.enabled=false