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

Similar to the suggestion to put everything on an SSD.

I run netbeans from freeBSD. The netbeans cache files were in my home directory in .netbeans. My home directory was mounted over nfs so access was very slow. Moving .netbeans to the local machine greatly improved performance. I added a softlink from .netbeans in my home directory to the local directory. Netbeans describes how to change the usedir and cachedir here and lists this as a reason under item 4.

Prior to this I could write entire sentences in comments before the gui caught up and displayed them. After text appears as I type.