Speedup IntelliJ-Idea

Question

I\'m using intelliJ for Scala development and got 8 GB of new RAM last week, so I thought: time to use it. I checked my task manager and found intelliJ using ~2

Answer 1

Not sure why it has not been mentioned yet - you can enable Power Save mode, which turns off many IJ background activities, including Files Synchronization. Some articles says that it is possible to disable Files Sync in project structure options (like the article in answer by @OJ278), but I was not able to find this option in IJ 14, but Power Save mode seems to disable it.

I have a quite large code base (AOSP source code), so HD activity due to background files synchronization is annoying...