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

Don't invest time in optimizing your NB installation as long as you can scale vertically: get a SSD (and faster hardware in general).

Also:

• Add an exception for all relevant folders (e.g. project dir, temp dir) to your anti virus software (or better, get rid of it).
• Don't use network drives for your projects
  • check if your home drive is local
  • check if your IDE uses non-local folders (e.g. %AppData%)