title: Aptana 3 becomes very sluggish with multiple (large) projects, how do I improve performance?
body: <p>Aptana 3 becomes very sluggish with multiple (large) projects, how do I improve performance? </p>
  
  <p>I have several projects that I checkout of subversion into a dev directory that I can access through Apache as well. Something like this</p>
  
  <p>So if I go to this URL <a href="http://local.dev" rel="noreferrer">http://local.dev</a> I can see all the project folders. In Aptana it looks like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>+ dev (main project folder that Apache uses as well)
   - project (svn branch I'm currently testing)
   - another_project (another svn branch)
   - yet_another_project (yep, another svn branch)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So to access the project form the URL I don't need to configure Apache every time, I just need to access the project folder like this <a href="http://local.dev/project" rel="noreferrer">http://local.dev/project</a> or <a href="http://local.dev/another_project" rel="noreferrer">http://local.dev/another_project</a></p>
  
  <p>The problem is these project are very large (Prado, Zend and Drupal frameworks as well as additional Libraries as needed) and I could have multiple branches of the same project checked out into different folders. Aptana indexes all of this which is what I think the problem is. I know I could create a project for each of these within Aptana itself and close the project if I'm not using it but I don't see the option to do this to a folder within the project (which I think should solve my problem), but if I do separate project folders that I also need to setup Apache to point to the new location, which is another pain in itself.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to close a sub-folder in a project folder in Aptana? or have a sub-project folder? or Close a folder within a project? or exclude indexing of a folder? or turn off indexing?</p>
  
  <p>NOTE: Sometimes when adding a new folder within a project I get the out of memory warning and/or Aptana crashes. Also when coding Aptana becomes so sluggish that it's very cumbersome to do anything at all. I really love the Aptana IDE but this might be a deal breaker for me.</p>
  
  <p>I was thinking I would move the Apache site to the Aptana root directory so I could access it on a project level but I don't think this will work for the indexing performance on the Aptana side of things.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:
  This might be related:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://jira.appcelerator.org/secure/EditComment!default.jspa?id=75032&amp;commentId=169647" rel="noreferrer">http://jira.appcelerator.org/secure/EditComment!default.jspa?id=75032&amp;commentId=169647</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Looks like Aptana is indexing the .svn folders</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:</p>
  
  <p>So far the only thing to help is to make a new workspace for each project I need to checkout of svn. This is a pain to switch back and forth between projects but Aptana is usable again.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE #2</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/APSTUD-1706" rel="noreferrer">http://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/APSTUD-1706</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Looks like this made the Aptana BUG list, Yeah!</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE #3</p>
  
  <p>After countless tinkering to get Aptana to play nice I decided to test other IDE's. </p>
  
  <p>Started with Eclipse as that's what Aptana is based from. I have a nice build going but it's still not 100% what I was looking for.</p>
  
  <p>Also trying PHPStorm which is paid IDE but I'm finding it's a top notch IDE</p>