PhpStorm very slow and sluggish on netbook, optimize IDE for responsiveness?

Question

I recently upgraded from PhpStorm 6 to PhpStorm 7. Delighted to see all the improvements, but it runs awfully slow on my low-powered netbook. The delay between typing and se

Answer 1

Try removing unnecessary files from your project. I had 3k+ *.html log files inside my project and that slowed down typing terribly when the 'Project' tab was open. (Hiding the project tab or turning off the PHP Plugin does also speeds up PHPStorm, but obviously those are not viable trade-offs.) (I'm using PHPStorm 2016)