I have a dual 800 MHz Pentium III at home as well. I have 1 GB RAM and have set IDEA to use a maximum of 384 MB. I can work quite well with these settings. At work I have a single 1,6 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB RAM and have tried to set IDEA to use a maximum of 192 MB. Whenever IDEA reached the limit I can see lots of swapping activity. When garbage collection forces disk swapping it takes very long to complete and that produces a huge slowdown. Always remeber that Windows itself takes lots of memory as well (maybe you don't use Windows), the VM process takes additional memory and all other applications you are running as well, so 512 MB fill up quite easily when giving IDEA a maximum of about 200 MB for example.
Michael On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 22:54:49 -0700 (PDT), Ionut Dogarel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My machine is a dual CPU Pentium III at 800MHz with >500 megs of RAM. SCSI hard drives and so on. This is >not the latest hardware but it IS a fast enough box. >Sadly, it is not good enough for Idea 642. > >I am not sure if this was said or not, but you don't >have an IDE without an editor. And the editor hardly >does its job. As Michael said below, you can not even >type. I don't care the IDE is the best in the world if >I can not type in it. Do you see the point? > >Hope that the next version makes the difference, >Ionut > > > > > > >--- Michael Morett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My machine is a Pentium II with 512MB memory running >> 1JDK .4._01 and W2K. >> >> Let me try to rephrase my thoughts since I sense I >> might be misinterpreted. >> >> With IDEA up and running, it should never pause when >> I start typing or >> scrolling up and down the page. It really is that >> simple. That is my main >> concern. I am not talking about pausing to perform >> an autocomplete of >> syntax. I just dont know what IDEA is "thinking >> about" when I start typing. >> I haven't asked it to do anything. I am just trying >> to type. >> >> To make matters worse, it seems very responsive when >> I first load it, but >> throughout the day, it gets progressively worse. >> This leads to slow delays >> when I click on the various tabs (Structure, >> Project, Ant Build, Find, >> etc.). >> >> I'm getting killed on this forum with many people >> debating my notion of >> "editor" vs. IDE. For all intents and purposes, I >> could fire up IDEA to cut >> a memo. Not that I would, mind you, but the very >> act of typing causes >> delays. I just dont see how this is possible. >> >> This might be attributed to Swing. I am not placing >> blame on the >> programmers at IntelliJ. I am just making an >> observation. And venting >> frustration when I see a 3 second delay upon >> pressing the backspace key. >> >> :-) >> >> "Erik Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> akod56$41c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:akod56$41c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> > "Michael Morett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> message >> > akm7oi$ptp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:akm7oi$ptp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> > > Erik, >> > > >> > > my friend...buy a new computer to use an IDE? >> > >> > Yeah, I figured I was spending 80% of my day using >> IDEA, so I might as >> well >> > optimize my environment for it. There are some >> costs associated with >> writing >> > software, and one of them is having a fast >> machine. >> > >> > >> > > can i place the order on dell.com and you pick >> up the tab? >> > >> > If you are developing software for money, then >> hopefully your company (or >> > client or whatever) would want to buy you a fast >> machine to make you more >> > productive. If you are developing software for >> fun, then it's obviously >> > harder to justify buying new hardware. (But on the >> bright side, at least >> you >> > aren't making films as a hobby. That would be >> really expensive... :) If >> you >> > are developing software for fun, perhaps you need >> to make a choice between >> > buying a new computer or reverting to an older EAP >> or the 2.6 release >> > version. I certainly wouldn't want to go back now >> that I'm used to all the >> > great recent features, but at least you'd be able >> to type... >> > >> > >> > > i know you're half kidding about this >> suggestion. To your point "But its >> > > basic mission is not to simply edit files. Its >> mission is to introduce >> > some >> > > intelligence into a development environment, and >> I think it does a great >> > > job." >> > > >> > > It can't introduce intelligence to anything >> unless I am allowed to type >> it >> > > in first. It can't refactor code that isn't >> there. >> > >> > Well that's true. I guess if it's too slow to type >> anything, it's not >> worth >> > much. Luckilly, the beta cycle is nearing an end >> (supposedly), so we >> should >> > start seeing performance improvements soonish. >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Eap-features mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes >http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
