jezza
March 10, 2025, 12:24pm
1
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
Guapa
March 10, 2025, 12:53pm
2
I think you need to do a full install to get the updated Electron version.
Download - Obsidian
jezza
March 10, 2025, 2:32pm
3
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.
1 Like
Guapa
March 10, 2025, 2:56pm
4
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
jezza
March 10, 2025, 3:41pm
5
Which cpu model is in your macbook air?
Realistically, the start time is abysmal. Nothing on my laptop loads slower than Obsidian. Windows boots quicker.
1 Like
Enable restricted mode and restart obsidian. How does it go?
Guapa
March 10, 2025, 4:34pm
7
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.
jezza
March 11, 2025, 5:34am
8
its super quick.
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
jezza
March 13, 2025, 2:14pm
11
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!
Jopp
March 16, 2025, 4:23pm
13
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