title: Why is intellij chewing up my computers processing power?
body: <p>I've got a Macbook pro with the following spec that is specially bought just so that my computer can breath a little easier when I'm coding.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>16GB Ram</li>
  <li>2.5GHz quad-core</li>
  <li>512GB SSD</li>
  <li>OSX Yosemite</li>
  <li>Running Intellij 15.0.3</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But every time I run Intellij the fan runs on full speed 80% of the time even when I'm just browsing the files and after sometime the file viewer scrolling become jerky and slow and I have to stop &amp; start Intellij after the fan stops running. And when I run my test cases or my Scala application .. OMG! Intellij makes my computer sound like a vacuum cleaner and the sides of the laptop gets so hot that I can fry bacon on it. </p>
  
  <p>What is Intellij doing behind that scene that is making my new macbook pro regret that I bought it to run intellij on.</p>
  
  <p>How do I fix it because right now I have to restart intellij 3 times a day ? I just want to be able to compile, debug &amp; get autocompletion on my Scala &amp; Java code.</p>