I noticed that too with IntelliJ IDEA on Windows 7 :( IntelliJ IDEA should run such background threads with lower priority! All common OS support that, and als

I noticed that too with IntelliJ IDEA on Windows 7 :( IntelliJ IDEA should run such background threads with lower priority! All common OS support that, and also Java supports this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1617963/setting-priority-to-javas-threads http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1617963/setting-priority-... Can someone file a bug for it?