How to make intellij idea run faster?

Question

How can I make IDEA to run faster in Ubuntu? I am running it in a i7 thinkpad with 6 gigs of RAM.

Answer 1

Disable all unused plugins for example Struts 2 , Subversion Integration , UI Designer if you don't have deal with them.

Also increase memory heap, for that I suggest you check following links:

• Tuning IntelliJ IDEA

• JetBrains' new intelliJ IDEA 13 slow?

Answer 2

help -> edit custom vm options -> change everything to:

--server
-Xms1024m
-Xmx1024m
-Xmn256m
-XX:MetaspaceSize=256m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=2g
-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50
-Xverify:none
-XX:PermSize=128m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-XX:+UseG1GC
-XX:+UseNUMA
-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1024m
-XX:CICompilerCount=2
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow
-XX:CICompilerCount=2
-ea
-Dsun.io.useCanonPrefixCache=false
-Dkotlinx.coroutines.debug=off
-Djdk.module.illegalAccess.silent=true
-Dide.no.platform.update=true
-Djdk.attach.allowAttachSelf=true
-Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false
-Djdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes=""
-Djdk.attach.allowAttachSelf=true
-Djdk.module.illegalAccess.silent=true
-Dkotlinx.coroutines.debug=off

-XX:ErrorFile=$USER_HOME/java_error_in_idea_%p.log
-XX:HeapDumpPath=$USER_HOME/java_error_in_idea.hprof