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On a new Ubuntu VM, I noticed my fresh install of IntelliJ was printing a lot of logs to the console. After playing around with the existing projects logging configuration etc, I still could not squelch logs that began with:

2020-06-18 16:07:08
Full thread dump OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.252-b09 mixed mode):

I finally realized IntelliJ was attaching itself to the process, and this issue helped me figure out how to stop that: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-203543

The trick is to disable the debugger.attach.to.process.action registry key in IntelliJ. You can do this as follows:

  1. Open IntelliJ Help menu and click on Find Action...
  2. In the window that opens, type Registry and press enter.
  3. In the Registry window that opened, find the key with name debugger.attach.to.process.action and uncheck the checkbox in the Value column.
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