PhpStorm 6 crashing and going out of memory when there is symlink in project?

Question

My installation pf PhpStorm keeps crashing when I open a directory that has a symlink to another directory in the project. For example, my project has dir1, dir2 and dir3 . In dir3 I have a symlink o dir2 . When I try to expand dir3 PhpStorm keeps going out of memory and eventually crashing. I increased to 1 GB and still it crashes. I know it is not a memory issue but tired increasing it anyway. I am on a Mac Mountain lion. Has anybody experienced this before? If so what are my options?

Answer 1

I'm using version 7. I have also found that WebStorm indexes symlinks recursively, which is bad if they ever point to their parents - indexing just goes on forever until out of memory.

One manual fix for this is to exclude any folders that are pointing to parents:

However, this is inefficient, as WebStorm should be smart enough to do it by itself, and an oversight can easily lead to crashing and running out of memory. This comes up a lot when using frameworks with auto-build features such as Meteor .

Ultimately, this should be reported as a bug. This is just a workaround.