I switched from YCM to neocomplete[1] a few months ago and haven't looked back, performance is much better. I'm on Arch and never really had crashes with YCM,

I switched from YCM to neocomplete[1] a few months ago and haven't looked back, performance is much better. I'm on Arch and never really had crashes with YCM, but if the crashes are performance related it might help. [1] https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplete.vim https://github.com/Shougo/neocomplete.vim