Maximum Number of Notes in Vault

windows 10, 24 RAM, intel i7 probably gen 7, 256GB SSD.

my concern isnt necessarily my machine, but the scalability of obsidian.

there are other note/mindmap/md type apps which stress test to a million notes, things like this.

im not talking about some esoteric application like importing the library of congress, just something for sales people or lawyers, or researchers who may wish to collect and reference, say, 100 thousand contacts/documents/reference notes/case histories, etc. So if you’ve got 100k, not hard to get to 250k, so stress testing at a million is a logical place to go.

which is the reason when i read here that some were testing at 8, 10, 12 thousand and having a sluggish response, i immediately knew it wasn’t at a point where it was scalable.

of course, i stand to be corrected.

also, it would be great to know if/when some instant search could be implemented using a vault-wide full-text index (? SQLlite, etc?) so that the sluggishness then would not be perceived, as search results would be fast.

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