How using an Solid State Drive boosts the performance of your IO-bound IDE dramatically. Operating system file caches are not enough for the high IO-read/write demand of modern Java IDEs. Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA now runs without hangs or hiccups on an average windows machine.
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raveman replied ago:
lol, i like the idea of buying new hardware to boost performance. why not submit a bug report about bad performance? or maybe uninstall some shitty plugins.
jexp replied ago:
Submitting bug reports won't help you right now. Uninstalling plugins is no help when the IO-boundness of the IDE is the problem. And I'd rather spend the bucks for new hardware than spending all the hours trying to tweak startup params or configuration. Sorry if this is so obvious for you but for me it was not (as SSD is not just another fast hard drive at the first glance).
Btw. this is not an IDEA problem eclipse performs as bad on the existing hardware.
cowardlydragon replied ago:
The real problem is that in the age of massively cheap (17$/GB) RAM, windows still swaps as soon and often as possible, as if it were a 385 with 16MB of RAM.
The Gigabyte i-Ram was promising, but it was expensive and didn't seem to support ECC.
Turning off the swap in Windows XP doesn't really do anything. The OS was simply built with swap in mind. Linux, I have read, is better with turned off swap and will eagerly use excess RAM.
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