I am new to using IntelliJ IDEA, and I am constantly getting warnings that I need to increase my max memory heap size, which is currently set to 2048M. I developing Java applications built with Maven on a Windows desktop with 8GB of RAM. The task manager indicates that the IDE is using over 3GB of memory.
I have searched the JetBrains site for help with this and have found recommendations to remove/disable certain plugins. I did that as much as I could, and currently only have two non-standard plugins installed, one for AWS and one for Tomcat.
Even my smallest Java application exhibits this problem. I am wondering if others have faced this issue and how you have overcome it.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions; I appreciate the help!
Edit:
As I noted in my comment, it seems the memory issue stems from the project selection panel. If I have a project open and then close IntelliJ (without selecting "file/close" first), then reopen IntelliJ, the project opens up with reasonable (~800M) memory usage. Opening a project through the project selection panel results in a memory usage of > 2,700M!
Solved!
I was finally able to figure out the source of the major memory leak: It is the Eclipse Interoperability plugin. I cycled through enabling/disabling the plugin, restarting in between attempts, and am certain that this is the problem. Fortunately I don't need this plugin.
I can see from the JetBrains help site that there can be other sources of excessive memory use in IntelliJ, but this one resolved the problem for me.