Recently IntelliJ has gotten very laggy, long pauses, etc.
On my Mac, when I run Activity Monitor, I can see IntelliJ chewing up CPU for some reasons that are not clear. A lot of CPU.
In IntelliJ, I am just trying to edit my code, but it becomes unbearable because typing, scrolling, anything trivial becomes so laggy I cannot work.
Restarting IntelliJ helps for a while, but then the problem is back shortly. What could be going on?
- Garbage Collection?
- Some other background process?
- Scala?
I have autobuild turned off.