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Comment: removed unnecessary and broken memory settings updates

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  • "Update method:" should be "Branch default"
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General Tips

Increase the memory available to PyCharm

The default memory allocated to PyCharm's Java JDK is too small for edx-platform, so you should update it:

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Tip

The simplest way to create this is from the Help menu choose "Edit Custom VM Options..

  1. If you do not see this file, copy it from /Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/bin/ using the terminal command:  cp /Applications/PyCharm.app/Contents/bin/pycharm.vmoptions ~/Library/Preferences/PyCharm2018.1/

Increase the -Xms and -Xmx settings, e.g. something like the following:

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-Xms512m
-Xmx2048m
-XX:MaxPermSize=350m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=240m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops
-agentlib:yjpagent=delay=10000

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Restart PyCharm

Note

~/Library/Preferences are hidden folders and so you might have to enable Hidden Folders view to be able to see this folder structure.

Autoscroll to Source files in Navigator

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