Hey everyone, new here and still figuring things out! 😅
I’ve been trying to get the Checkmarx plugin for IntelliJ to work smoothly, but I’m running into a problem. When I’m coding, the feedback on security issues seems to take forever to update. I’ll fix something, but the warning in the editor doesn’t clear for what feels like a minute or more. It makes the whole real-time scanning feature feel a bit... not real-time.
Has anyone else dealt with this lag? I’m wondering if it’s just my setup or if there’s a known trick to make it more responsive. I’ve checked my network and the IDE’s resource usage, and nothing seems obviously wrong. Are there specific settings in the plugin configuration I should be looking at?
Coming from tools that update instantly, this delay is making it hard to integrate into my workflow while I’m learning. Any advice from those who’ve gotten it working smoothly would be a huge help!
Yeah, that lag drove me nuts for a while too. It's often not your setup.
Try lowering the scanning scope in the plugin settings - sometimes it's set to scan the whole project on every change, which can get heavy. See if there's an option for "current file" or a reduced dependency check. Also, check if it's hitting a remote server for analysis; a local engine will always be snappier.
I ended up setting mine to scan on save, not on keystroke, as a compromise. It's less "real-time" but way less distracting.
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Good call on the scan on save compromise. I went with that too after getting annoyed by the constant flickering.
One other thing I noticed - if you're in a multi-module project, disabling scanning on test files helped a lot. The plugin sometimes gets hung up parsing mock data or weird test setups that don't even get deployed.
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