NetBeans 6.7.1 unstable on Snow Leopard

[wrldwzrd89]

Anyone else experience this? My installation seems to crash quite frequently, for no apparent reason.

[David2070]

Yeah, I have the same problem. I'm not sure what the problem is, but its definately not as stable as it was under Leopard.

[squix]

The same problem. A lot worse than under Leopard.

[UpWorks]

I have had to stop using Netbeans all together. It literally drains the CPU. If you type a dollar sign ($) in your code it lags for up to 10-15 secs before allowing you to continue.

I am running on a MacBook Pro (new one) with 4 gig of memory and I have the k64 enabled to 64 bit and it still is a dog. I hope it gets patched soon, I am not a fan of going back to Dreamweaver.

[psaint]

I don't experience slowdowns but it can crash quite unexpectedly. Snow Leopard is shipping with new version of Java which I'd suspect does not play well on OS X or Netbeans itself got issue with it.

[Alan S]

So is it true that Snow Leopard only runs with Java 1.6, and will uninstall a Java 1.5 JRE if it finds it.

Maybe, NetBeans requires something in Java 1.5.

I'm speculating but the only thing that comes to mind is the "swing-layout-1.0.3.jar" which had some Swing Layout classes (not included in 1.5) that became standard with a different package name in Java 1.6.

[daflake]

I switched to Eclipse because of the problems. It seems to be running a lot better now.

[wrldwzrd89]

I ended up switching to Eclipse as well - and not regretting my decision. Sure, NetBeans is nice, but when it's THAT unstable it's not really usable.

[Alan S]

Do we have any update on running NetBeans on Snow Leopard?

[squix]

I google around every week but apparently, there is still no solution

[bjohnosn]

We were able to get Netbeans more stable on Snow Leopard by following the steps here http://chxor.chxo.com/post/183013153...n-snow-leopard and then changing either the netbeans.conf file or changing Java Preferences to prefer java 5 over 6 for applications.

[wrldwzrd89]

Originally Posted by bjohnosn

We were able to get Netbeans more stable on Snow Leopard by following the steps here http://chxor.chxo.com/post/183013153...n-snow-leopard and then changing either the netbeans.conf file or changing Java Preferences to prefer java 5 over 6 for applications.

That doesn't work on Snow Leopard, as the Java 5 JRE/JDK is just a symbolic link to JRE/JDK 6.

[lee1210]

Originally Posted by wrldwzrd89

That doesn't work on Snow Leopard, as the Java 5 JRE/JDK is just a symbolic link to JRE/JDK 6.

Did you follow the instructions on that site? I just took a glance and it looks like there are steps to get java 5 on your snow leopard system.

-Lee

[wrldwzrd89]

Originally Posted by lee1210

Did you follow the instructions on that site? I just took a glance and it looks like there are steps to get java 5 on your snow leopard system.

-Lee

I didn't even look at the site in question, I simply posted based on what's included in SL.

[Transporteur]

I have 6.7.1 running on 10.6.1 without issues. No slowdowns at all and almost no processor usage.

Anyway, Eclipse for the win!

[Cromulent]

Originally Posted by Transporteur

I have 6.7.1 running on 10.6.1 without issues. No slowdowns at all and almost no processor usage.

I certainly don't have any issues and that is with just about all of the Java plugins installed. I wouldn't say there was no processor usage though and the RAM consumption seems to be through the roof.

Still no crashes which is something I guess, and Netbeans is a far nicer IDE than Eclipse if you ask me (*no flames intended*).

[bjohnosn]

Originally Posted by wrldwzrd89

That doesn't work on Snow Leopard, as the Java 5 JRE/JDK is just a symbolic link to JRE/JDK 6.

If you look at the link in the post it explains how to install jvm 1.5 and even 1.4 if you like. Maybe my post was a little too terse. After doing so netbeans became much more stable. I still have unexpected closing but it is now functional for me.

[wrldwzrd89]

I've got good news, and bad news along these lines. The good news: NetBeans 6.8 is coming soon. The bad news: It looks like this release has some of the same issues 6.7.1 had on Mac OS X

[tercerojista]

Originally Posted by bjohnosn

We were able to get Netbeans more stable on Snow Leopard by following the steps here http://chxor.chxo.com/post/183013153...n-snow-leopard and then changing either the netbeans.conf file or changing Java Preferences to prefer java 5 over 6 for applications.

Apologies for being noobish, but where do I find netbeans.conf?! Everything I read just refers to this file as if I should know where it is, but I don't have a clue...

NetBeans 6.7.1 is quite temperamental for me now with Snow Leopard.

[wrldwzrd89]

Originally Posted by tercerojista

Apologies for being noobish, but where do I find netbeans.conf?! Everything I read just refers to this file as if I should know where it is, but I don't have a clue...

NetBeans 6.7.1 is quite temperamental for me now with Snow Leopard.

It's located inside the NetBeans application bundle, I believe. Right-click on NetBeans.app, choose Show Package Contents, drill down into Contents -> Resources, it's in there.

[chrono1081]

Thats a shame about Netbeans. I use it all the time for class as an alternative to visual studio. (Don't get me wrong I love VS but...I have a mac not a win machine and dont care to go back to windows.)

Hopefully everything gets fixed soon.

[asafm]

Hi guys,

I solved that problem by increasing the values for MaxPermSize and Permsize option in netbeans.conf:

netbeans_default_options="-J-Dorg.netbeans.modules.tomcat.autoregister.token=1252227984581 -J-Dorg.netbeans.modules.tomcat.autoregister.catalinaHome=\"/home/asaf/apache-tomcat-6.0.18\" -J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=512m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -J-Xverify:none -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true"

My java is 1.6.0_12

[squix]

Originally Posted by asafm

Hi guys,

I solved that problem by increasing the values for MaxPermSize and Permsize option in netbeans.conf:

netbeans_default_options="-J-Dorg.netbeans.modules.tomcat.autoregister.token=1252227984581 -J-Dorg.netbeans.modules.tomcat.autoregister.catalinaHome=\"/home/asaf/apache-tomcat-6.0.18\" -J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=512m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -J-Xverify:none -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true"

My java is 1.6.0_12

this seems to work - I increased the values to 256 and 512:
PermSize=256m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=512m

[squix]

update on the previous two posts:
no, increasing the memory as recommended in the previous two posts just causes that the crash comes later so, unfortunately, it is not a solution

btw. 6.8rc1 comes still with this bug.

Cheers