I am trying to understand and resolve a severe performance issue with
NetBeans 19 running on Azul Java 11.0.13; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
11.0.13+8-LTS.
My project consists of about 260 classes and has probably around 75,000
lines of total text, including some extensive HTML documentation files.
The project is still growing. and will probably get 15-20% larger.
Simply opening the project and letting it complete all of the startup
scans takes about 20 minutes on an otherwise idle computer. When
opening a 100 line class file, the Navigator pane displaying method
names just took about 4 minutes to populate.
Double clicking on a method name in the Navigator pane gives me a
"Lengthy operation in progress" "Calculating declaration position"
message that stays on the screen for about a minute.
Even clicking on a menu can result in delays and a wait cursor for a
period of time. Everything in NetBeans seems very slow.
During all this, the computer hosting NetBeans shows no CPU, memory, or
network constraints. The project files are on a NAS which also shows no
performance issues.
And I'm not experiencing performance issues with other applications on
the same computer using the same NAS. The issue really seems restricted
to NetBeans.
When I started this project I didn't have these issues. But it does
appear they have gotten worse over time and as the project gets bigger.
Any ideas about what might be happening and how to fix it? My first
guess would be that NetBeans is memory constrained in some way, but that
would need to be some NetBeans setting. The computer shows over 8GB of
free memory with NetBeans using under 600MB.
Blaine
- NetBeans 19 Performance Issues Blaine Heinfeld
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