# Obsidian Graph view doesnt work for a large Vault **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [September 30, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-graph-view-doesnt-work-for-a-large-vault/106287 "2025-09-30T07:24:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![osmanf](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e5b9ba/32.png) [@osmanf](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/osmanf)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-graph-view-doesnt-work-for-a-large-vault/106287/1 "2025-09-30T07:24:11Z")
This vault is open source. Here you can get it: [GitHub - osbm/nixpkgs-vault: A large obsidian vault with 130k notes](https://github.com/osbm/nixpkgs-vault) It takes around 10 minutes to index the vault. (Not unexpected honestly) I have a powerful computer, processor intel i7-14700KF and 64 gb ram and nvidia 4090. Accelerated graphics are enabled. And there is no 3rd party plugin. I chose to represent the data inside the [nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs) repository with this format because i thought the graph view would be cool and i could do bunch of visualizations and try out the new feature Obsidian Bases. Graph view freezes. Even a local graph view window freezes if i increase the depth to just 1. The problem is that obsidian doesnt utilize my GPU even though i enabled the Graphics Acceleration and doesnt utilize CPU if i turn it off. It just uses 1 core to 100% and only thing that freezes on my system is the obsidian. I have many questions: Is there anything i can use Graph view? Does this vault works on your machine? Is a 130k note vault pushes the limits too far? Is there a CLI tool to let me do the indexing? Is there a tool that can utilize my entire GPU or multi core CPU to just generate a full screenshot of the Graph View? I dont even care if its interactive at this point. ---
**Author:** ![rigmarole](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/rigmarole/32/29973_2.png) [@rigmarole](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/rigmarole)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-graph-view-doesnt-work-for-a-large-vault/106287/2 "2025-09-30T10:55:28Z")
> [@osmanf](#): > > Is a 130k note vault pushes the limits too far? Have you tested on a smaller vault to isolate that it is in fact the vault size that is the issue? ---
**Author:** ![CawlinTeffid](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/cawlinteffid/32/82899_2.png) [@CawlinTeffid](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/CawlinTeffid)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-graph-view-doesnt-work-for-a-large-vault/106287/3 "2025-09-30T23:08:07Z")
This doesn’t surprise me (well, the result doesn’t; the lack of GPU usage does). A test of an older version of Obsidian with 100,000 notes found that altho most things worked well, the graph crashed. (I’m not sure how their hardware compares to yours.) [https://web.archive.org/web/20220522204944/https://www.goedel.io/p/interlude-obsidian-vs-100000?s=r](https://web.archive.org/web/20220522204944/https://www.goedel.io/p/interlude-obsidian-vs-100000?s=r) ---
**Author:** ![osmanf](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/e5b9ba/32.png) [@osmanf](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/osmanf)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-graph-view-doesnt-work-for-a-large-vault/106287/4 "2025-10-01T04:57:00Z")
I deleted 100k notes and it is able to show the graph of about 29k notes. ![Screenshot 2025-10-01 at 07.55.27](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/5/7/57c28ad4c8781d8a44164a8f625622ca867dfa2e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/whitenoise/32/11_2.png) [@WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/WhiteNoise)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-graph-view-doesnt-work-for-a-large-vault/106287/5 "2025-10-24T00:42:23Z")
> [@osmanf](#): > > Is a 130k note vault pushes the limits too far? Yes. There is not a hard limit but the performance of graph view degrades with the number of notes. I don’t think anything above 25K files is practical with a modern desktop computer. This is not a bug but a current limitation. Feel free to search/open a FR asking to optimize global graph view to work with larger vaults. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/b/e/bec35fbd23ab28909bb6bfe62cb32eb82dd34019.png) [@system](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-graph-view-doesnt-work-for-a-large-vault/106287/6 "2025-11-21T00:42:55Z")
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