Mouse cursor is freezing when IntelliJ Idea starts to do something
Issue #2456
resolved
When I’m changing a source code and IDE is starting with processing, mouse cursor disappears and does not respond to mouse or touchpad for a few seconds. Tried to increase heap memory in IDE to 6Gb and it was not helped me.
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Thank you for your response.
SMART diagnostic shows 93% of health status. I don’t know if is is enough. But I will replace my SSD by brand new one.
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repo owner
Hi. Sorry, I didn’t mean to insinuate that your drive might be bad. My question was specific to whether you’re storing your project files under a directory that’s synchronized to a cloud storage service. You might try to copy the project that’s exhibiting this issue to another location on the same disk that you know isn’t being scanned by any type of cloud storage service and see if the same issue is present.
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reporter
Hi Scott. Sorry for my inaccuracy. The project is located on the laptop disk (SSD), when it was copied to an external drive (not HDD), these freezes disappeared, but the IntelliJ Idea still sometimes slows down with syntax errors displayed. This may also be due to the fact that the it is running on laptop disk.
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repo owner
Ah, okay. It certainly sounds like it’s something with the local machine. If you’re able to reproduce this behavior in an environment where you’ve ruled out all aspects of the local machine (hardware, software such as cloud storage services, etc.), please let me know and we’ll get new diagnostic logs.
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Hi Scott, sorry for delay, I’m trying to change SSD. Please resolve the issue for now.
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I’m trying to change SSD
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Thanks for the logs. Is there any chance that your project directories are stored in a location that’s managed by a cloud drive app, e.g., OneDrive, Google Drive, or similar? I ask because in the provided thread dumps, I’m seeing these pauses occurring when the IDE is trying to perform local file I/O, and those types of apps are constantly locking files which can result in EXTREMELY slow access to the file system as required by the IDE.