Improve startup time on Linux

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Does Obsidian take a really long time to startup for anyone else?

It takes me 7 (seven whole giant) seconds to open an Obsidian window.

I get pummeled with this 7 seconds every time I startup the application, but also when I want to open another vault. Basically anytime I have to open another Obsidian window.

Here’s the laptop I’m using.

  • Dell XPS 13
  • CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
  • Memory: 16GiB
  • GPU: TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
  • OS: Arch Linux 5.18.15-arch1-1
  • DE: Gnome 40 on Wayland

Technically, I’m installing from: AUR (en) - obsidian-appimage but that just downloads the AppImage file. The results are the same if I execute the app image directly.

$ ./obsidian-appimage-0.15.6.AppImage 
2022-08-04 16:43:57 Loading main app package /tmp/.mount_obsidi48E6mo/resources/obsidian.asar
Updates disabled.
[24338:0804/094358.370702:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[24338:0804/094402.738881:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!

I have 1 plugin installed:

  • Dataview

I tried disabling it, but the startup time is unaffected.

I have 500 markdown files, totaling about 3MB of text. Also, I have about 200 images.

GPU acceleration is on by default. I tried disabling that, but nothing seems to have changed.

I always remember Obsidian being slow to startup, but I’m finally starting to get really annoyed with it.

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There is an option in the community plugins menu called 'Debug startup time'
Is something I saw someone else post regarding slow startup (on windows actually). Maybe that’ll help find out what’s going on

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I enabled the “Debug startup time” setting. Here’s what I got.

Total plugin setup: 0ms

That makes sense. I have 1 plugin and I disabled it. The startup time is still 7 seconds.

It seems like the bottleneck is Obsidian itself, not the plugins.

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I have noticed the same problem, on Windows this wasn’t an issue on the same machine.

Running Ubuntu, installed Obsidian through Snap.

Start up seems to be shorter when “re-opening” the app.

I don’t recall noticing this back when I was running Manjaro, strange.

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aight, so in my case it seems to be related to gpu drivers (AMD in my case, 7 second gap between timestamps), and checking for updates on Github (another 6 seconds).

I simply found these by starting from terminal without adjusting any verbosity.

Both of these delays dissapear on consecutive startups in my case.

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I don’t remember how I installed Obsidian on my Ubuntu 22.04 machine but I want to confirm that:

  • I have a long startup time (several seconds, actually enough to find and read this very thread here)
  • restarting and changing vaults is fast and feels much more reasonable though

My machine details:

  • OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • GPU: GeForce GTX 1070
  • GPU driver: nvidia-driver-510
  • RAM: 16GB DDR4 3600 MHz

I have two plugins installed and enabled but this problem also existed before I had them.

Other stuff (games, Chrome, VSCode, Blender, …) runs just fine and starts faster than Obisidan which feels weird.

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For me, the obsidian takes several seconds to start. Want to discover what’s going on too.

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Opening from the “Open” button on the software installer it shows this error in my open console:

flatpak run md.obsidian.Obsidian /app/bin/obsidian.sh: line 24: 13 Segmentation fault (core dumped) zypak-wrapper /app/obsidian [email protected]

Opening directly from console

$ flatpak run md.obsidian.Obsidian
2022-12-11 19:31:01 Loading main app package /app/resources/obsidian.asar
LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
xdg-settings
Gtk-Message: 16:31:01.491: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 16:31:01.491: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 16:31:01.491: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 16:31:01.491: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
[13:1211/163101.501912:ERROR:bus.cc(397)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
[13:1211/163101.501943:ERROR:bus.cc(397)] Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
2022-12-11 19:31:01 Checking for update using Github
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[57:1211/163101.551758:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[57:1211/163101.557672:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(275)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[57:1211/163101.557849:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(275)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
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[57:1211/163101.560303:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(275)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[57:1211/163101.560364:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(275)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[57:1211/163101.560436:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(275)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[57:1211/163101.560501:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(275)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
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2022-12-11 19:31:01 Success.
2022-12-11 19:31:01 Latest version is 1.0.3
2022-12-11 19:31:01 App is up to date.
[13:1211/163131.569958:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(975)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
[112:1211/163131.614877:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(377)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[112:1211/163131.619169:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(275)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[112:1211/163131.619291:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(275)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
[112:1211/163131.619385:ERROR:gbm_wrapper.cc(275)] Failed to export buffer to dma_buf: No such file or directory (2)
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