Obsidian limited to 4GB of usable memory due to Electron/V8 memory cage. uses memory-intensive background operations - e.g. indexing it has no control or limits over these operations This can cause Obsidian to frequently crash when it’s indexing large files it’s indexing several files (e.g. whe…

Closely related, possibly should be merged: [image] Obsidian build without V8 pointer compression Feature requests The default Electron/V8 comes with pointer compression this limits the per process memory footprint to 4GB. Pointer compression (aka memory cage) compresses…

@CawlinTeffid thanks - they are related (I wrote both) - they are both workarounds for memory related crashes, but not the same, but complementary. While a build without pointer compression would be interesting, until it gets directly supported by Electron it would be at most a testing thing (exper…

Basic memory management to avoid OOM errors

Feature requests

CawlinTeffid July 16, 2025, 2:20am 2

Closely related, possibly should be merged: