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

Had the same issue with Netbeans 7.3.* and 7.4 Beta on Windows 7. Switching some plugins on and off, I figured out it was the svn plugin which boosted the CPU constantly to about 27%, converting my laptop into a toaster. Turn it off and code happy again :)