Actually, you're right. I just tested recursively grepping a remote directory with a thousand 16KiB files. The speed is completely catastrophic: $ time gre

Actually, you're right. I just tested recursively grepping a remote directory with a thousand 16KiB files. The speed is completely catastrophic: $ time grep -r foo test ... real 7m36,154s user 0m0,110s sys 0m0,249s The average download speed from remote host is ~2MiB/s, so it isn't a network issue - a thousand 16KiB files sum up to 16MiB so it shouldn't take more than ten seconds. Seven minutes is terrible. I don't understand why is this happening. Is this an inherent limitation of remote filesystems or is sshfs implementation just sucky? EDIT: parallelization seems to help - running 100 concurrent reads at a time uses up to ~1MiB bandwidth. I suppose ordinary unix tools don't play well with remote filesystems because they do stuff sequentially. That being said, if JetBrains is struggling with SSHFS, then they really need to fix their file browsing code.