Is your JetBrains IDE turning into a memory hog? Try this simple fix

Alan Tai
4 min readFeb 8, 2024

Recent versions of JetBrains IDEs have been accused of insatiable memory consumption, leading to user frustration and unanswered support tickets. While the official solution remains elusive, I discovered a workaround that might just offer sweet relief: replacing the default bundled JetBrains runtime JBR Java 17 JDK with GraalVM Java 21 JDK.

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