RE: --- Big Problems of the Netbeans IDE 6.x, the freezing cursor

--- [email protected] wrote:
> Ok, sorry, I forgot to say these hardware details...
> 
> So, my notebook is Fujitsu-Siemens E8200 (I guess),
> - processor:  Intel Mobile cca 2 GHz
> - RAM:   2GB
> - I have there standart mobile disk with capacity 80 GB
> - OS:   Windows XP updated with last patches
> So, I have no problem with the PC power, I think...
> 

Shouldn't

> - Importing:  probably yes, I import settings from 5.5 to 6.1 ... why this
> is another topic, is it somehow broken or why?
> 

This has always caused some problem or another. Maybe it doesn't any more, but in the past it
has. You can try this. Right click on the Windows "Start" button, choose explorer all users, get
the address bar showing and editable, enter:
%userprofile%\.netbeans\

in the address bar, make sure NB is closed, rename folder 6.1 to _6.1, restart NB and say no to
importing. Does that make a difference? Then we'll know if importing does or does not have an
affect on your installation. If not you can just remove the 6.1 folder and rename _6.1 back to
6.1.

> - Watch or Inspect view windows:   The private preferences are just an
> edging for the variables debug view, I think this variables view have to be
> designed to the preferences of the most choosy developers, because if these
> people will see the status of the debug tools in netbeans, that it is very
> hard to use in everydays work, so they will start the massive reccession of
> Netbeans users. So if you want to cooperate on these improvemnts, so I am
> here, we can disscuss about that in mails, messages (or in Skype,
> whatewer...).
> 
> But the worst netbeans (also 6.1) success blocking problem, of the 5-10
> seconds freezes per aproximately every 3 minutes of netbeans 6.1 while
> coding in java IDE editor, is there!    If nobody knows where this problem
> is, how to solve it (it's normal, it happens sometimes to developers, I
> understand it), ...so then  I recomend to you (I mean NB developers) allow
> to switching OFF / ON  all these wizzard features in the IDE editor of
> netbeans via Options dialog. 
> That looks like genial temporary solution till time it will be fixed.
> 

Freezing and what not sounds to me like some other kind of problem. I don't have freezing issues
in NB. You might want to go into your nbinstall folder, go to etc, and edit netbeans.conf giving
it an extra option in the default options -J-Xmx500m, as more than likely it is now being set to
around 300, which won't work well if you do heavy web development probably...it is something to
try. You can see how much member you are using by showing the memory toolbar:
View|Toolbars|Memory

I think. If you are getting up to your max memory often and it is trying to Garbage collect alot
and is thrashing back and forth because it needs a lot of memory yet no room to run you'll get a
very bad result. If this is the case then to me the algorithm used to determine the max amount of
memory to use needs to be adjusted.

Wade


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