How to improve Netbeans performance?

Question

Is there a real way to get Netbeans to load and work faster?

It is too slow and gets worse when you have been coding for some time. It eats all my RAM.

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Answer 1

Very simple solution to the problem when your NetBeans or Eclipse IDE seems to be using too much memory:

1. Disable the plugins you are not using.
2. close the projects you are not working on.

I was facing similar problem with Netbeans 7.0 on my Linux Mint as well Ubuntu box. Netbeans was using > 700 MiB space and 50-80% CPU. Then I decided do some clean up. I had 30 plugins installed, and I was not using most of them. So, I disabled the plugins I was not using, a whopping 19 plug ins I disabled. now memory uses down to 400+ MiB and CPU uses down to 10 and at max to 50%.

Now my life is much easier.