Java Programming

Starting a few days ago, debugging any program in netBeans takes much longer than it should. The VM memory seems to be a bit overloaded (I am not running any programs at the moment and it is sitting at 45.5MB.) But when I execute programs, they run fine. A friend suggested that I might have an infinite loop running, but I still have the problem immediately after rebooting the computer.

Sometimes, the debugger pauses during the compiling stage, and I have to press the |> button (continue) to make it ....well, continue.

Has anyone else seen this problem before and can help me out? Its very frustrating to not be able to debug any programs. Here are the outputs from a simple program run first by the debugger, and then executed:

init:
deps-jar:
compile:
8198
Wed Aug 08 00:00:00 CEST 2007
1984 7 8 0 0 0 0
202
202
Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 CEST 2009
Wed Aug 08 00:00:00 CEST 1984
debug:
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 47 seconds)


init:
deps-jar:
compile:
run:
8198
Wed Aug 08 00:00:00 CEST 2007
1984 7 8 0 0 0 0
202
202
Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 CEST 2009
Wed Aug 08 00:00:00 CEST 1984
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 1 second)

thanks for your help