How to control the "Updating skeletons" background task in PyCharm for IronPython interpreter?

Asked 17/10, 2011 at 19:35 Answered 1/12, 2019 at 23:12

Is there a way to suppress, stop or, otherwise, control the settings for, or display of, background tasks in PyCharm? Selecting the IronPython interpreter causes it to update skeletons (seemingly) every time the interpreter is selected and usually takes 20-30 minutes to complete, rendering the IDE nearly unusable. Most times, I can't even carry on with normal work as most of the context menus are disabled during the operation.

Scissor answered 17/10, 2011 at 19:35 Comment(0)

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.html Run it as so;

sudo CpuThrottle xxx 25

where 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.

Acceptance answered 15/11, 2013 at 3:32 Comment(6)

This was on Windows 7. – Scissor 25/11, 2013 at 16:18

ok. I do not think I have seen the problem on Win8. I run both win/mac. I'll keep an eye out. – Acceptance 26/11, 2013 at 18:27

As for 2015-01-25, problem still appears. Updating skeletons has not been finished yet. – Eckblad 25/1, 2015 at 8:30

@George, which machine OS/version are you on? – Acceptance 25/1, 2015 at 17:56

@Acceptance Windows 8.1 x64. This operation took about one hour. When I opened PyCharm again, it seems this operation was not performed again. I think it's how it should work normally. Anyway, it would be convenient to mark some packages as ignored. – Eckblad 25/1, 2015 at 18:1

I'm also seeing this issue on Windows 8.1 x64. updating skeletons and indexing blocks pycharm. After that, the UI again hangs on opening top bar menus and i have to the kill PyCharm. – Uriel 11/7, 2016 at 21:23

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!

Tungsten answered 1/12, 2019 at 23:12 Comment(0)

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Please upgrade to PyCharm 2.0. It's likely that the problem with generating skeletons of binary modules is already fixed.

Merce answered 30/12, 2011 at 13:45 Comment(1)

year 2020. pycharm 2018.3; anaconda 2020.3; still updating skeletons and indexing libraries – Marginal 18/8, 2020 at 20:24

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