How to control Intellij Idea 14 - Indexing and VCS Refresh behavior

Question

Windows 7 64 bit, intellij 14 16 GB RAM, 1 2GHZ CPU with 2 cores

I have a huge legacy project with maybe 60 modules that I open with intellij. And I only use it to view stuff. I dont need to change anything in it.

Everytime I open it, Intellij goes through Indexing and VCS refresh history Dance, which takes a while and slows down everything.

Since nothing's changing really, I dont want it do index and refresh history everytime I open it.

1. How do I disable this or control this behavior?
2. Is there a way to manually perform these tasks?

Answer 1

I had the same bug and that's the decision:

1. go to settings - version control - background
2. set changelists to cache initially to minimal value (10)
3. check setting refresh changes every
4. set huge value for minutes (240 for example)
5. save settings
6. reload Idea