I have been running v.8 of IntelliJ on os x for a while now, and noticed the odd crash, particularly after waking up the computer.
Thanks to my colleague I have found a solution that appears to be working.
Some googling turned up very little, but mostly points to the JVM being the problem. I had tried updating the Java installed on os x and setting the JDK to be 1.5 which did seem to improve stability but still crashed.
Tom pointed out that Intellij also has a configuration for the JDK version in its config which I updated to be 1.6+ and then switched my JDK back to 1.6 64bit. That was a week ago and not only have I had no crashes, of course the whole experience is smoother under 1.6! woo hoo!
The trick lies in the file
/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 8.1.3.app/Contents/Info.plist
<key>JVMVersion</key> <string>1.6*</string>
To Switch JDKs:
/Applications/Utilities/Java/Java Preferences.app
Some other references I found along the way:
JDK Update:
To See IntelliJ Log output:
~/Library/Caches/IntelliJIDEA8x/log/
UPDATE:
For Intellij9:
/Users/jim/Library/Logs/IntelliJIdea90/idea.log
(I found this using the activity monitor and then “inspect process” and you can see a list of open files and ports)
IntelliJ stores its plugins here (Thanks to ) :
~/Library/Application Support/IntelliJIDEA80
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Jim Barritt | 22-Sep-09 at 7:58 am | Permalink
It still seesm to crash every now and again. I also discovered that it doesnt like the 64bit version of java, so I set jdk 5 32bit to the top in the java preferences pane (Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Java preferences)
Jim Barritt | 06-Nov-09 at 7:40 pm | Permalink
But it still crashes.
Jim Barritt | 06-Nov-09 at 7:45 pm | Permalink
Found this pdf which is quite interesting
Defintitely suggests the JVM at work.
Lambda | 22-Oct-10 at 11:35 pm | Permalink
This post really helped me out! Thank you.