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Using the NetBeans 6.5 Beta, I've come to the conclusion that the NetBeans IDE has become Pretty Much Unusable. I'm using a realistic set of projects, on a pretty good workstation, with a 768M max heap, running GlassFish v2u2, and even with "Deploy On Change" turned off (which seems necessary when making changes to code with any sort of frequency), the teeth-grinding waits due to the often mostly / completely unresponsive UI (sometimes I even have to kill the IDE process) have led me to download MyEclipseIDE and contemplate migrating to Eclipse over there. (This in spite of the fact that I like NetBeans and, especially, the progress of the NetBeans Platform (although I'm working on J2EE / EJB / Web Services, not Swing at this time). Is such terminal unusability being addressed for 6.5 Final ???
To be clear : if I was just using NetBeans as a "word processor", it'd be ok, but using it for software development - with a REAL-WORLD set of projects, where cleaning, compilations and building occur, with interdependencies... its performance is generally terrible.
...It's performance is generally terrible... due to "Scanning...", "Compiling...", and various other, background processing tasks.
If you spot ide iresponsiveness, could you please generate thread-dump? it will show the culprit.. http://wiki.netbeans.org/GenerateThreadDump Thanks.
Yes, indeed I shall.
without any specific data to analyze or description of steps to reproduce the offending behavior, I don't know how an engineer will be able to claim that they have fixed this issue. once the filer adds more details, somebody could probably make progress on this.
Of course, I will try to provide additional specifics (working in Visual Studio at the moment). Yet, as this long thread on netbeans-user discusses at length, surely the developers responsible for NetBeans must also suffer pain from due to various background tasks at various times killing performance and usability... ?! [quote] ------- Additional comments from willfarnaby Sat Aug 16 22:56:15 +0000 2008 ------- ...It's performance is generally terrible... due to "Scanning...", "Compiling...", and various other, background processing tasks. ------- Additional comments from vkraemer Wed Aug 27 21:25:22 +0000 2008 ------- without any specific data to analyze or description of steps to reproduce the offending behavior, I don't know how an engineer will be able to claim that they have fixed this issue. once the filer adds more details, somebody could probably make progress on this. [/quote]
Very likely duplicate of 145464. Feel free to reopen if you disagree and attach details/thread dumps. Thanks. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 145464 ***
willfarnaby, This issue was marked as duplicate of issue 145464, which is also a duplicate of issue 145546. issue 145546 was fixed and was verified by its issue reporter in build 20081007. Would you like to try a build later than 20081007, see if your problem is solved as well? Thanks, Hong