IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate is extremly slow on mac M1

Question

I'm using Mac Air M1 and trying to run IntelliJ Ultimate.

I've read some issues on JetBrains YouTrack and it seems that a lot of people pretty satisfied with their experience. So, I think that something wrong with my environment and I can't find out what

Steps I've done:

1. Rebooted my Mac

2. Invalidated Caches & Restarted IDE

3. Reinstalled IntelliJ

4. Deleted "Caches" and "Application Support/JetBrains" directories and then reinstalled IDE

5. Checked if I'm using a default Java Runtime version

6. Checked if I'm using Intel version of IDE

7. Disabled Antialiasing

8. Closed "heavy" apps like Google Chrome

9. Installed Atom Material Icons plugin

10. Downloaded prebuilt shared indexes

11. Modified .vmoptions and added

-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true
-Dsun.java2d.opengl.fbobject=false

12. Disabled Smooth scrolling

13. I'm not using external display, mac is connected to power outlet

Here is my environment:

IntelliJ:

IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-221.5080.210, built on April 12, 2022
Runtime version: 11.0.14.1+1-b2043.25 aarch64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
macOS 12.1
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 1024M
Cores: 8
Non-Bundled Plugins:
    com.mallowigi (64.0.0)
    Dart (221.5588)
    io.flutter (66.0.4)

Kotlin: 221-1.6.20-release-285-IJ5080.210

Mac:

Model Name: MacBook Air
Chip: Apple M1
Total Number of Cores: 8 (4 performance and 4 efficiency)
Memory: 8 GB
OS: macOS Monterey Version 12.1

Related YouTrack topics

• https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-268203
• https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-3237
• https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2732

UPDATE #1: Moved issue to JetBrains YouTrack: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-293523/IntelliJ-IDEA-Ultimate-is-extremly-slow-on-mac-M1

Answer 1

I download the M1 version for intellij ultimate and I have a incredible improve in performance. BTW: I have a macbook pro 13' with 16gb ram and 1TB ssd

intellij environment

IntelliJ IDEA 2022.1.1 (Ultimate Edition) Build #IU-221.5591.52, built on May 10, 2022 Licensed to ******************** Subscription is active until ********. Runtime version: 11.0.14.1+1-b2043.45 aarch64 VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o. macOS 12.3.1 GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Old Generation Memory: 1024M Cores: 8 Registry: *************

Non-Bundled Plugins: monokai-pro (1.8.1) com.vincentp.gruvbox-theme (0.5.4) com.intellij.plugins.macoskeymap (221.5591.19) com.github.rmatafonov.cucumber-scenarios-indexer (1.1.0) com.github.chencn.yamlandprops (1.0.5) net.lagerwey.cucumber-kotlin (2022.1.0) dev.eltonsandre.intellij.spring.assistant.plugin (1.5.2)

Kotlin: 221-1.6.21-release-337-IJ5591.52

Answer 2

Try EAP version of IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2, which runs on JBR 17 with Metal framework.