Mac Studio and PyCharm

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Mac Studio and PyCharm

One day I came home from a business trip and found my (admittedly old) 2015 iMac basically inoperable. I replaced it with a new 64G Mac Studio and posting here is a testament to my dissapointment.

Running the BASICS, which I did daily and then some on my 32G Intel iMac without issue, basically brings PyCharm to its knees memory wise.

I believe PyCharm supports the M1 chip natively but if I open more than 2 or 3 repositories in PyCharm..I will eventually get a memory error and have to quit and often reboot.

This is a massive step backwards. Maybe the studio is the wrong platform for development? But how can it be that wrong?

Wondering if others have any tips or seen similar issues.

I'm typically running

DropBox
PyCharm
Chrome
Safari
Cisco Webex
Microsoft Outlook and Excel
Evernote
SnagIt Pro
Camtasia

Mac Studio and Monterey

Note: I upgraded my Air to Ventura and it killed my shell so I'm not eager to upgrade the Studio to Ventura.

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Posted on Dec 23, 2022 10:29 AM

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Luis Sequeira1

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Dec 23, 2022 11:22 AM in response to cldeluna

There is a separate PyCharm download for macs with Apple Silicon. As VikingOSX noted, if you are running the Intel version under Rosetta, that may be the cause of problems.

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VikingOSX

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Dec 23, 2022 11:11 AM in response to cldeluna

Check with JetBrains to see if PyCharm (and the version that you have) is actually supported on an M1 Mac Monterey (12.6.2?) as either a Universal2, or native ARM64e binary. If it runs as an X86_64 app under Rosetta2, it may not perform as expected.

You have a choice of Apple's default Bash 3.2.57, Bash v5.* (package manager), or the Zsh shell in Ventura. The appropriate dot files need to be present to support the respective choice of shell.

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