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Aleks G
Aleks G

Reputation: 57316

IntelliJ IDEA constantly reindexing

I am working on a very large project in IntelliJ IDEA (currently version Ultimate 2020.1.4) - with over 100,000 java files, close to 50,000 resource files, dozens of modules, several gigabytes of external libraries - you get the idea.

When I first opened the project, it took a good 30 minutes or so for IntelliJ to index the project (which I did expect). However now, as I work with the project, almost constantly IDEA shows message "Search for files to reindex" and "Reindexing" - the reindexing is running almost all the time. This makes development and especially debugging a very painful experience indeed.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling IntelliJ; deleting the entire source tree and re-cloning the git repo - the behaviour is still there.

Any suggestions on how I can get it to stop constantly search for files to reindex?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1168

Answers (1)

CrazyCoder
CrazyCoder

Reputation: 401925

It's a bug. Please try 2020.2 release.

If the issue persists, report it in YouTrack with the logs attached (Help | Collect Logs and Diagnostic Data).

Add the following in Help | Diagnostic Tools | Debug Log Settings:

#com.intellij.util.indexing.FileBasedIndexImpl:trace

Upvotes: 2

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