How to get Netbeans 11.1 to boot faster? - performance

I really like NetBeans as an IDE for my Java projects. However, since switching versions from 8.2 to 11.1, it takes too long to open. What can i do?, perhaps change some startup options, to avoid doing lots of things that I don't use anyway? One thing I noticed is that it stays on "loading program modules" for a while.
I've gone through the plugins and have disabled all the ones I don't use, and I close all projects I am not working on. There might be 4 or 5 plugins active. I'm using Java 9. My programs rarely contain more than 2 or 3 classes and don't contain much code. I'm running an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-5020U CPU # 2.20 GHz 2.19 GHz and 6.00 MB RAM.
Another thing that drives me nuts is that, while I like the auto complete feature, which I can access by hitting CTRL + space, sometimes it gives me options that I don't want, but when I keep typing to put in what I want it still automatically inserts their choice, which usually has nothing to do with what I'm doing. So then I have to waste time removing what they inserted.
Any ideas?

I experienced a similar problem under Windows 10 (64-bit).
messages.log was full of messages like this one:
WARNING [org.netbeans.JarClassLoader]: Opening C:\Program
Files\NetBeans-11.1\netbeans\platform\core\name_of_java_archive.jar took
XXX ms
Adding the NetBeans executable to my antivirus' exclusion list solved the problem.

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RAD studio takes very long time to open

I was using RAD 10.1 (Berlin) with no problem until now... Last month I applied Windows Creator Update and was occupied by other businesses... Now, each time I start the IDE, the loading progresses quickly up to "All design time packages loaded". At this time RAD studio sits on its splash window and consumes ~25% CPU. It takes at least 10 minutes before the IDE appears...
I've installed RAD 10.2 (Tokyo) and all provided patches, hoping for a fix... But the problem remains the same.
I can't go back to previous version of Windows 10 (more than 10 days after install).
I've already searched for an answer and Matthias E suggested that it was linked to https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-17972.
But, in my case, the (very) long period stands only for IDE loading even when there is no project to (auto)load. I'm not talking about the time-period to load the project or to start project execution or even to start the application execution. Once the IDE has been loaded (after ~20'), everything (editing, compilation, building, debugging, execution) is working quickly...
I have become accustomed to never close the IDE once opened but this is particularly disturbing.
Could you help me ?
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For those who cannot access the link above, here is the content :
Details
Type: Bug Bug
Status: Open Open
Priority: Major Major
Resolution: Unresolved
Affects Version/s: 10.2 Tokyo, 10.1 Berlin Update 2
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: Debugger, IDE (Development Environment), Libraries/Frameworks
Labels: None
Platform: Windows 10
Language Version: English
Edition: Professional
InternalID: RS-83785
InternalStatus: Open
Description
The debugger goes haywire for everyone in our organization with Creators and Tokyo/Berlin. Reverting to Windows Anniversary brings back the sanity.
Debugger problems with Tokyo/Berlin and Creators:
App takes a long time to load with modules loading and unloading and re-loading many times
IDE freezes
Memory consumption of bds.exe explodes, sometimes (> 3GB)
I will attached before and after screenshots showing how modules load and unload and re-load with Windows 10 Creators.
I presume these problems have the same root cause(s) than those in https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?messageID=884382*
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Thanks to Lieven Keersmaekers's suggestion to use procmon, I was able to find the cause of the problem. RAD studio was heavily trying to access an enormous (128 GB) zip backup file (see : qed-electronic.com/Download/170808-ProcMonTrace.jpg ). I've simply moved the backup file to another location and RAD studio now starts as before. I have no idea why RAD wanted so much to access this file : none of my project files were located in this zip. The Windows Creator Update was apparently not guilty...
bds.exe must be launch with only one CPU !
CPU Affinity CPU=0
Thx to Javorszky
https://community.embarcadero.com/forum/installation-issues/1408-running-from-ide-freezes-windows-10#4173
To run quickly without entring TaskManager and change Setting CPUAffinity,
just create a batch file on the desktop:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\19.0\bin\"
start /affinity 1 bds.exe
Why ?
"The reason for this is that most applications you run these days have been designed with multi-core processors in mind and will work with the operating system to distribute their operations as evenly as possible across all the available cores. "
see : https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/change-the-processor-affinity-setting-in-windows-7-to-gain-a-performance-edge/

Tortoise Is very Slow And uses Huge amount of memory

Since some days TortoiseSVN uses lots of memory when I want to commit also it takes 10 - 20 minutes before the changed files appear.
On normal use it doensn't use much memory only when commiting or comparing changed files.
As you can see the memory usage is not normal.
I have already reinstalled the newest version (1.8.10) but no difference.
Does anyone have any clue?
(the directory I am working in is 2 GB This includes the tempdata witch is excluded from svn and i am working on w7 x64)
Here is a Screenshot of the Icon Overlay settings i use
I had the same issue since I updated to (TortoiseSVN 1.8.10); excessive amounts of memory used and a each refresh of your view would increase this amount even further.
The new version 1.8.11 appears to have resolved the issue.

XCode 6 GM: Constantly freezing / locking while editing Swift code

Since installing XCode 6 GM, it has been freezing and locking, showing the spinning wheel of death while I attempt to edit code that has syntax errors. Has anyone else seen this, and are there any known work-arounds?
I foolishly abandoned my cautious strategy of saving the previous version (Beta 7) and it appears that Beta 7 is no longer available for download. Are there any known archives of / for the link?
I have also posted to the dev forums and will follow up with a bug report, but it is hard to pin down the exact circumstances.
Edit:
Additonal Notes:
CPU: SourceKit Service is generally around 100%, but that has seem to have been the norm for the flavors of XCode, and the CPU seems to properly drop off when it finishes recompiling.
RAM: SourceKit is no longer exhibiting the memory leaks that used to cause it to halt and catch fire, memory does not appear to be a factor, and there are several ~ 5+ gigs to spare.
Environment:
Late 2012 Mac Mini, 16GB RAM
OS X 10.9.4 (to be fair, this was new today as well, driven by the requirements of XCode 6 GM).
That said, only the software changed today.
Update
Apple claims that this bug is fixed in Beta 6.1, for what it's worth.
You should look if you have any imports missing in your bridging header file. Sometimes even commented out imports will cause this behaviour. For me it was commented out Pixate Freestyle Cocoa Pod. I had to remove pod completely from my project to stop SourceKitService from crashing.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/25173389/527539
I can't say any of these fixed the issue, but they alleviated the situation:
I removed all playgrounds from the project tree. Saved them somewhere else.
I removed all objectiveC code from the swift project (when possible). This Spinning-wheel, BTW, is a problem only in my swift projects. My other Objective-C-only projects are fine.
It looks like it's the background indexing process which is taking all the CPU. Open "Activity Monitor" and see it right there at the top, using 360% CPU. Lowering the priority for this process helped as well (type in terminal):
renice 10 -p [pid]
Make sure to take the correct process id from Activity Monitor.
The higher the number (should not exceed 19) the lower the priority.
I make significant changes one at a time. It seems that the amount of errors in the file affect how many times and for how long the spinning wheel spins. It looks like some type of errors trigger it more often than others, but I'm not able to pin point which exactly.
XCode had a similar indexing issue in previous versions (see this Xcode4 issue: How to disable indexing in Xcode 4?) which gives me the hope they will fix this issue sometime, hopefully soon...
I create a new tab via menu File->New Tab and close the old tab that is frozen.
CmdT does not work that time.

ReSharper slow and troublesome

Im using ReSharper 6 in a Vs 2010 Pro environment and are doing some pretty large scale projects. Development box includes 2 x quadcore xeon with 24 GB ram. Project's are running on a PCI-E x4 SSD drive with 1GB/s read and write (for real). So, i suppose there is not much I can do to give the development machine more power.
The worst project is an Umbraco site with roughly 14000 files and folders and some pretty nasty css. I got everything from second long freezes to 30 sec VS freezout.
I've optimized VS2010 according to every guide available in VS optimization. Even enabled the 64bit memory enhancement but the problems continue.
I've even added the media library folder to the skip list.
Are there any other magic tricks someone would know of, please let me know!
gorohoroh's comment lead me to the solution, the 6.1 nightly dec 13 rocks!
Thanks
http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+6.1+Nightly+Builds
I am using 7.0.1 and I find that it's killing my machine too.
However, it normally happens if I have more than one VS2010 open.
If it happens then the only way of fixing it I have found is to close VS, delete the DotSettings.user and the suo, and then reopen.
I'm using 6.1, and find that it slows down over time, and typing becomes really laggy. I've just discovered that when it starts to chug, if I go to "Tools..Options..ReSharper..General", then click on Suspend, then Resume - it goes back to it's initial speed.

Eclipse 3.5 64-bit Performance Windows 7

I installed Eclipse Galileo and after trouble with the JDK, its starting well. But I have big problems with performance. Every third second, Eclipse is hanging for a while. It runs not smoothly. I need a efficient IDE as Eclipse for work. So, it would be very nice when you have a fast answer :)
Both Eclipse as the JDK are 64-bit versions.
Have you any ideas?
Update:
I can´t really explain the problem from scratch. But in my case, it was a trouble between Eclipse´s and the auto-complete-function of my OSK. If I disabled auto-complete, there was no hangs anymore. I don't know why the using of the OSK blocks the thread (?) of the whole editor.
Maybe anyone of you, has an idea why?
From your description it sounds like the garbage collector is being triggered. How much RAM have you got in the system? Depending on the plugins you're loading Eclipse can need quite a lot of it. I think the bare minimum is 256 Mb, and realistically you need at least 1 Gb, more if you're doing web development
Have you got an up-to-date JVM? Eclipse generally runs much quicker with a 1.6 JVM.
One other thing to check, do you have an aggressive virus scanner? Eclipse plugins are collections of small files in jars, some virus scanners can really slow down the performance. If you are able, remove the Eclipse install directory from the scanned files.
See this EclipseZone article or this question for some general performance tips.
Run Process Monitor and see what kind of system calls and/or file system calls the JVM is doing. Use filters aggressively to pinpoint a specific process. I had a similar issue where a graphics card utility triggered a flood of registry lookups for every UI update which just made Eclipse incredibly slow. (Somehow SWT was hit exceptionally hard by this bug, I'm not sure why.)
EDIT: I meant "Process Monitor", not "Process Explorer". But the link was correct.
You could try to run it from within a virtual machine set up on your computer to see if the problem is still there. If it's not, it might be faster for you to just work from within the virtual machine environment. Doesn't address the issue, but it may help avoid it altogether.
I had same problem so I just switched to the 32 bit version of Eclipse and it runs fine with no performance issues.
I can´t really explain the problem from scratch. But in my case, it was a trouble between Eclipse´s and the auto-complete-function of my OSK. If I disabled auto-complete, there was no hangs anymore. I don´t know why the using of the OSK blocks the thread (?) of the whole editor.
Maybe anyone of you, has an idea why?
Thanks for any help!
Same problem for me
I have Windows 7 professional 64 bit and 8gb of RAM
Eclipse is extremely slow, probably 5 times slower than the Windows Vista 32 bit machine I have recently upgraded from (Europa version) - and that machine was a complete dog!
Adding -Xmx1024m -XX:+UseParallelGC -vm C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll has made a pretty big difference
I have same problem as not respoinding.
I searched in internet for a solution. I found one by adding the below to
eclipse helios config file.
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\javaw.exe
Initially it looks Ok to start and click on the different buttons and
running on several files in eclips project. But when I click on debug
and step by step process. Then it is again showing not respoding.
I have a new laptop win7 installed.
I have the same problems with the 32 bit version, running with a 32 bit JVM.
It's more that my RCP Application which I developed with Eclipse is slow. I've tried both -Xmx1024m and -XX:+UseParallelGC, with no noticable effect. Has this issue been registed with eclipse.org?

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