PyCharm autocomplete slow

Question

Autocomplete is slow for some python modules, for example for numpy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcAjEElSUCc

It usually takes a second or two for autocomplete to start showing possible autocomplete options. I set autopopup delay to 0 ms, but this did not help.

I use Ubuntu 15.10. I have 8 core AMD processor and 32 gb of ram. Same autocompletion in LiClipse on my machine is instantaneous.

I usually use heavily autocomplete, thus for me speed matters. I would greatly appreciate if someone would help me to make autocomplete faster or to let me know that it is not possible.

Interactive

Have you reported it as a bug? – Countersink

Probably related: youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-21180 – Countersink

Has this problem been solved in the latest updates, or do you still feel that the process is rather slow? – Stitt

Answer 1

I had a similar issue with a much more recent version of Pycharm. After some monitoring of system resource consumption while writing a small program, I realized that the drive I installed it to (a RAID 0 volume for bulk storage) was being hit hard. This coincided heavily with the pauses I saw.

While this drive was fairly quick, Pycharm appeared to be very, very slow on it. I re-installed to a SSD and everything worked much better.

Merger