How to control the "Updating skeletons" background task in PyCharm for IronPython interpreter?
Because today 2013-11-14Thu, it's 2 years after your bug and no other people are complaining about the pycharm, now 3.0, problem, I believe it is actually probably a Mac OSX issue. Numerous programs on my brand new 10.8.5 machine run way way over 100%. Pycharm updating skeletons was just taking 330% and making my fan spin crazily.
From lots of previous googling I found a little script that can temporarily fix the problem; http://www.willnolan.com/cputhrottle/cputhrottle.htmlRun it as so;
sudo CpuThrottle xxx 25where xxx = your process ID per Activity Monitor, and 25 = whatever %cpu you wish to limit it to. Upon clicking return, it will only last as long as one does not click ctrl-c. I read on the mac boards about a bug in the code where it would seek to use all available resources in looking for system updates, the same as this thing is doing. So I guess, alas we have to live with it. At least we have the little tool. Sigh.
This was causing me problems because while this process is running, Jupyter-in-Intellij doesn't display the side panel where you can print things out. So it's pretty much a blocker.
I did several things which together resolved the problem:
- I updated Intellij via "Check for updates..." and updating everything that was presented
- I restarted Intellij after the update
- I deleted a large (20,000 lines) sample JSON file from my project following the advice of this post on the Intellij forum that mentioned excluding or deleting files that weren't necessary to the project because the skeletons task would run on those
Unfortunately, I am not 100% certain what fixed it because I deleted the file as soon as my IDE came back up. Hopefully this answer will help someone in the future because Jupyter server within Intellij/PyCharm is excellent!
Please upgrade to PyCharm 2.0. It's likely that the problem with generating skeletons of binary modules is already fixed.