how is intellij doing for you with our monorepo? i...
# contributing-to-airbytec
charles
07/19/2021, 11:39 PM
how is intellij doing for you with our monorepo? i've noticed mine start to chug alot.
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user
07/19/2021, 11:51 PMslow as a hell. Probably it is a good idea to exclude some modules or open subdirectories as a separate proj, but using it as monorepo makes my room hot during reindexing 🙂
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user
07/19/2021, 11:51 PMIt’s been bad for a while for me and the motivation behind wanting to 100% split off connector builds. Building connectors creates too many files that are then indexed constantly. When new connectors are added it adds a 5-10 min indexing cost to switching branches (in both directions!)
I’ve been trying something new where I’m explicitly excluding
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user
07/20/2021, 12:19 AMThat’s because you don’t have 64GB RAM 😜
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07/20/2021, 1:00 AMu
user
07/20/2021, 1:00 AM@s swears by ^
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user
07/20/2021, 1:02 AMon a more serious note, do people change their intellij custom vm settings? I do and although I've noticed slowing down, it's not that bad for me (maybe ~5 mins) and I have 3 Intellij windows open usually (airbyte cloud, python and normal airbyte)
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Dhirendra Prajapati
07/20/2021, 4:42 PMi should probably play with those settings. i don't remember how i set them.
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user
07/20/2021, 4:42 PMit's not build times that are hurting me actually, it's the time intellij is taking to index and sync files.
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user
07/20/2021, 5:04 PMYou can set the VM options on the startup window:
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Loren Bland
07/21/2021, 1:11 AM Copy code
-Xms128m
-Xmx3096m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m
-XX:+UseG1GC
-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=50
-XX:CICompilerCount=2
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow
-ea
-Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false
-Djdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes=""
-Djdk.attach.allowAttachSelf=true
-Djdk.module.illegalAccess.silent=true
-Dkotlinx.coroutines.debug=off
-XX:ErrorFile=$USER_HOME/java_error_in_idea_%p.log
-XX:HeapDumpPath=$USER_HOME/java_error_in_idea.hprofu
user
07/21/2021, 1:11 AM^ works well for me
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user
07/21/2021, 1:14 AMThanks for sharing this. May be worth putting in our docs somewhere for other new hires (or arguably contributors)!
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user
07/21/2021, 1:15 AMoh good idea!
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user
07/21/2021, 1:34 AMIs -Xmx3096 a typo? Probably 4096?