Lonnnngg start up time

Hey,
I saw another post from earlier in the year about this ,and the ‘fix’ was to come out with v1.8.8. I’m on 1.8.9 and am having really long load times. I’m on an i7 1185G7, with 32gb ram.

Keen to take action on some suggestions! Cheers

Obsidian start-up time breakdown

Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.4
Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19044

  • Total startup time: 667,723ms
  • Initialization: 31,722ms
  • Vault (5,406 files): 9,407ms
  • Workspace (19 tabs, 15 deferred): 544,743ms
  • Core plugins: 2,162ms
  • Community plugins (41 active): 79,689ms
    • Tasks (v7.17.0): 7,248ms
    • ActivityWatch (v1.3.0): 5,365ms
    • Proletarian Wizard Task Manager (v1.3.2): 5,076ms
    • Time Ruler (v2.6.0): 4,709ms
    • Various Complements (v10.1.0): 3,039ms
    • Day Planner (v0.27.0): 2,519ms
    • Smart Connections (v2.5.2): 2,086ms
    • Text Format (v3.1.0): 2,065ms
    • Docxer (v2.1.1): 1,863ms
    • Dataview (v0.5.67): 1,817ms
    • Linter (v1.28.0): 1,578ms
    • Omnisearch (v1.26.1): 1,519ms
    • Recent Files (v1.7.4): 1,453ms
    • Templater (v2.9.3): 1,435ms
    • Markdown prettifier (v0.1.3): 1,405ms
    • Excel (v1.3.24): 1,274ms
    • Settings Search (v1.3.10): 1,262ms
    • Pandoc Plugin (v0.4.1): 1,200ms
    • Local Images Plus (v0.16.3): 1,151ms
    • Plugin Groups (v2.1.0): 1,147ms
    • Image in Editor (v2.2.6): 1,119ms
    • Paste As Html (v1.0.2): 1,021ms
    • Janitor (v1.0.7): 1,015ms
    • Task Progress Bar (v2.0.0): 970ms
    • Auto Note Mover (v1.2.0): 938ms
    • Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 889ms
    • Style Settings (v1.0.9): 888ms
    • Markdown Table Editor (v0.3.1): 877ms
    • Copy document as HTML (v0.8.1): 875ms
    • Multi-Column Markdown (v0.9.1): 808ms
    • Natural Language Dates (v0.6.2): 766ms
    • Tag Wrangler (v0.6.1): 685ms
    • Workbench (v1.6.4): 569ms
    • Calendar (v1.5.10): 553ms
    • Plugin Changelogs (v1.2.2): 511ms
    • markdown export (v1.0.24): 471ms
    • Find orphaned files and broken links (v1.10.1): 451ms
    • Excel to Markdown Table (v0.4.0): 446ms
    • Automatically reveal active file (v1.0.3): 313ms
    • Find and replace in selection (v1.0.1): 305ms
    • Vault Changelog (v1.0.0): 253ms

I think you need to do a full install to get the updated Electron version.

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Thanks!
the first restart resulted in:

Obsidian start-up time breakdown

Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19044

- Total startup time: 145,038ms
- Initialization: 2,211ms
- Vault (5,419 files): 2,598ms
- Workspace (18 tabs, 14 deferred): 116,539ms
- Core plugins: 733ms
- Community plugins (55 active): 22,957ms
  - Hotkeys++ (v0.2.7): 4,248ms
  - Text Extractor (v0.5.2): 1,904ms
  - Day Planner (v0.27.0): 1,211ms
  - Time Ruler (v2.6.0): 1,128ms
  - Tasks (v7.17.0): 1,103ms
  - Various Complements (v10.1.0): 814ms
  - Proletarian Wizard Task Manager (v1.3.2): 682ms
  - Excel (v1.3.24): 676ms
  - Copy document as HTML (v0.8.1): 575ms
  - Local Images Plus (v0.16.3): 538ms
  - Omnisearch (v1.26.1): 535ms
  - Dataview (v0.5.67): 492ms
  - Docxer (v2.1.1): 457ms
  - Janitor (v1.0.7): 446ms
  - Markdown Table Editor (v0.3.1): 446ms
  - Text Format (v3.1.0): 427ms
  - Markdown prettifier (v0.1.3): 412ms
  - Smart Connections (v2.5.2): 356ms
  - Style Settings (v1.0.9): 347ms
  - Pandoc Plugin (v0.4.1): 291ms
  - Templater (v2.9.3): 286ms
  - Linter (v1.28.0): 283ms
  - Plugin Groups (v2.1.0): 255ms
  - Auto Note Mover (v1.2.0): 225ms
  - Multi-Column Markdown (v0.9.1): 191ms
  - Image in Editor (v2.2.6): 186ms
  - Natural Language Dates (v0.6.2): 180ms
  - Task Progress Bar (v2.0.0): 169ms
  - Tag Wrangler (v0.6.1): 133ms
  - Calendar (v1.5.10): 131ms
  - Vault Statistics (v0.1.3): 118ms
  - Recent Files (v1.7.4): 116ms
  - Workbench (v1.6.4): 110ms
  - ActivityWatch (v1.3.0): 108ms
  - markdown export (v1.0.24): 103ms
  - Find orphaned files and broken links (v1.10.1): 86ms
  - Settings Search (v1.3.10): 84ms
  - Plugin Changelogs (v1.2.2): 70ms
  - Excel to Markdown Table (v0.4.0): 62ms
  - Automatically reveal active file (v1.0.3): 57ms
  - Find and replace in selection (v1.0.1): 55ms
  - Vault Changelog (v1.0.0): 54ms
  - Git (v2.31.1): 47ms
  - Paste As Html (v1.0.2): 40ms
  - Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 37ms
  - Quick Explorer (v0.2.13): 30ms
  - Editor Syntax Highlight (v0.1.3): 30ms
  - PDF to Markdown (v0.0.7): 26ms
  - QuickAdd (v1.11.5): 24ms
  - Advanced Tables (v0.22.1): 24ms
  - Local REST API (v3.0.4): 24ms
  - Hotkey Helper (v0.3.20): 24ms
  - Quick Switcher++ (v5.0.0): 21ms
  - Text Snippets (v0.1.2): 21ms
  - Reading Time (v1.1.2): 0ms

and the second boot resulted in:

Obsidian start-up time breakdown

Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19044

- Total startup time: 97,792ms
- Initialization: 213ms
- Vault (5,419 files): 1,253ms
- Workspace (18 tabs, 14 deferred): 62,874ms
- Core plugins: 212ms
- Community plugins (55 active): 33,240ms
  - Git (v2.31.1): 20,931ms
  - Hotkeys++ (v0.2.7): 3,101ms
  - Time Ruler (v2.6.0): 705ms
  - Day Planner (v0.27.0): 533ms
  - Tasks (v7.17.0): 494ms
  - Various Complements (v10.1.0): 465ms
  - Proletarian Wizard Task Manager (v1.3.2): 450ms
  - Docxer (v2.1.1): 378ms
  - Excel (v1.3.24): 339ms
  - Text Format (v3.1.0): 266ms
  - Omnisearch (v1.26.1): 263ms
  - Markdown Table Editor (v0.3.1): 243ms
  - Janitor (v1.0.7): 242ms
  - Local Images Plus (v0.16.3): 240ms
  - Markdown prettifier (v0.1.3): 234ms
  - Dataview (v0.5.67): 198ms
  - Style Settings (v1.0.9): 186ms
  - Smart Connections (v2.5.2): 186ms
  - Linter (v1.28.0): 176ms
  - Copy document as HTML (v0.8.1): 158ms
  - Pandoc Plugin (v0.4.1): 155ms
  - Natural Language Dates (v0.6.2): 150ms
  - Plugin Groups (v2.1.0): 137ms
  - Text Extractor (v0.5.2): 135ms
  - Auto Note Mover (v1.2.0): 130ms
  - Templater (v2.9.3): 124ms
  - Image in Editor (v2.2.6): 120ms
  - Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 118ms
  - Multi-Column Markdown (v0.9.1): 104ms
  - Task Progress Bar (v2.0.0): 93ms
  - Recent Files (v1.7.4): 90ms
  - Tag Wrangler (v0.6.1): 88ms
  - Calendar (v1.5.10): 83ms
  - markdown export (v1.0.24): 65ms
  - Settings Search (v1.3.10): 63ms
  - Plugin Changelogs (v1.2.2): 59ms
  - Workbench (v1.6.4): 58ms
  - Find orphaned files and broken links (v1.10.1): 57ms
  - Excel to Markdown Table (v0.4.0): 48ms
  - ActivityWatch (v1.3.0): 47ms
  - Find and replace in selection (v1.0.1): 41ms
  - Automatically reveal active file (v1.0.3): 38ms
  - Advanced Tables (v0.22.1): 34ms
  - Paste As Html (v1.0.2): 33ms
  - Local REST API (v3.0.4): 32ms
  - Vault Changelog (v1.0.0): 32ms
  - Editor Syntax Highlight (v0.1.3): 31ms
  - Vault Statistics (v0.1.3): 29ms
  - Hotkey Helper (v0.3.20): 25ms
  - Quick Explorer (v0.2.13): 23ms
  - QuickAdd (v1.11.5): 19ms
  - Text Snippets (v0.1.2): 17ms
  - PDF to Markdown (v0.0.7): 17ms
  - Reading Time (v1.1.2): 1ms

I"ll see how my other laptop is behaving.

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Seems to be some improvement. Are the times more what you expect for the computer and OS? Doesn’t help you, but below are the start-up times for my MacBook Air, which has 8GB of RAM.

Obsidian start-up time breakdown

Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:24:23 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8122 24.3.0

  • Total startup time: 1,057ms
  • Initialization: 169ms
  • Vault (7,621 files): 485ms
  • Workspace (16 tabs, 11 deferred): 245ms
  • Core plugins: 60ms
  • Community plugins (7 active): 98ms
    • Novel word count (v4.3.0): 32ms
    • Dataview (v0.5.67): 25ms
    • QuickAdd (v1.13.0): 21ms
    • Templater (v2.10.0): 11ms
    • Calendar (v1.5.10): 3ms
    • Settings Search (v1.3.10): 1ms
    • Auto Link Title (v1.5.5): 1ms

Which cpu model is in your macbook air?

Realistically, the start time is abysmal. Nothing on my laptop loads slower than Obsidian. :joy: Windows boots quicker.

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Enable restricted mode and restart obsidian. How does it go?

A base-model M3. Hope WhiteNoise can help you.

I just ran Settings > Files and links > Rebuild vault cache on my vault, and the start-up time improved to 939 ms, after restarting the app twice to let everything rebuild. Don’t know if it’s a recommended strategy for start-up issues.

its super quick. :confused:
I re-enabled community plugins. It’s booting up a lot faster now. But still most of the time is being attributed to the ‘workspace’ allocation vs specific plugins.
Any suggestions on debugging the start up time in this case?

Obsidian start-up time breakdown

Obsidian version: v1.8.9
Installer version: v1.8.9
Operating system: Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.19044

  • Total startup time: 29,907ms
  • Initialization: 1,035ms
  • Vault (5,419 files): 1,052ms
  • Workspace (17 tabs, 13 deferred): 23,205ms
  • Core plugins: 126ms
  • Community plugins (55 active): 4,489ms
    • Text Extractor (v0.5.2): 708ms
    • Day Planner (v0.27.0): 691ms
    • Docxer (v2.1.1): 379ms
    • Excel (v1.3.24): 340ms
    • Markdown Table Editor (v0.3.1): 221ms
    • Omnisearch (v1.26.1): 209ms
    • Tasks (v7.18.1): 190ms
    • Time Ruler (v2.6.0): 187ms
    • Pandoc Plugin (v0.4.1): 157ms
    • Copy document as HTML (v0.8.1): 148ms
    • Image in Editor (v2.2.6): 142ms
    • Recent Files (v1.7.4): 100ms
    • Calendar (v1.5.10): 93ms
    • Dataview (v0.5.67): 84ms
    • Proletarian Wizard Task Manager (v1.3.2): 80ms
    • Smart Connections (v2.5.4): 69ms
    • Linter (v1.28.0): 61ms
    • Find orphaned files and broken links (v1.10.1): 59ms
    • Local Images Plus (v0.16.3): 58ms
    • Plugin Groups (v2.1.0): 54ms
    • Text Format (v3.1.0): 46ms
    • Markdown prettifier (v0.1.3): 40ms
    • Paste As Html (v1.0.2): 36ms
    • Natural Language Dates (v0.6.2): 36ms
    • Templater (v2.10.0): 35ms
    • Style Settings (v1.0.9): 34ms
    • Various Complements (v10.2.0): 32ms
    • Task Progress Bar (v3.0.1): 30ms
    • ActivityWatch (v1.3.0): 25ms
    • Multi-Column Markdown (v0.9.1): 16ms
    • Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 10ms
    • Tag Wrangler (v0.6.1): 9ms
    • Workbench (v1.6.4): 8ms
    • Auto Note Mover (v1.2.0): 6ms
    • Settings Search (v1.3.10): 6ms
    • markdown export (v1.0.24): 5ms
    • Plugin Changelogs (v1.2.2): 4ms
    • Vault Changelog (v1.1.0): 3ms
    • Excel to Markdown Table (v0.4.0): 2ms
    • Find and replace in selection (v1.0.1): 2ms
    • Automatically reveal active file (v1.0.3): 1ms

There is a community plugin that can help you which plugins are causing the problem. Plugins - Obsidian

Great thanks for that! I’ll check it out and report back once I figure it out.

I installed Obsidian-1.8.9.exe and exported from Evernote – then began to incrementally import – roughly 70GB of notes. As my data was divided in a handful of folders, the smaller folders imported easily. The last two folders dwarf the rest. Importing and start-ups are extremely slow. I run a dual boot system with Obsidian on each – Linux Mint and Windows 10. Both have access to shared space on a second drive (D drive - regular hard drive). Only the Importer plugin has been added. Some actions run overnight. That slow!

70gb isn’t little, you should import data step by step instead to overload the CPU with an avalanche of data.

Every computer needs to build first a looooong list, before it can start the copying process.
Therefore, zip some data to shorten the list of items to copy

To load obsidian quicker: lazy plugin loader by Alan Grainger