What I’m trying to do
The basic problem is that Obsidian freezes and becomes unusable. The UI is frozen. However, I can stop the application in the task bar (windows 11) and restart.
What I’ve observed is that I have very high memory utilization. I’m regularly around 6GB (I’ve seen it as high as 10GB). Then at some point the memory usage drops to 200MB and it hangs. One clue I saw is that the task manager not only shows it went to 200MB, but sometimes it also shows I’m in “Efficiency mode”. I checked the drop down on the obsidian tasks, and none of them have the “efficiency mode” checked.
It is a large vault (20k notes, 50k attachments). I also have 70 plugins active. I doubt I’m pusing obsidian as hard as some people, but I’d bet I was in the top 10%.
Things I am trying
- I’m working on splitting the vault into multiple vaults.
- I’m guessing the reason memory is getting so high is that the index is getting really large. I’m going to write another help request on that describing what I think the issue might be and some possible solutions. I’m afraid someone who understands the internals of how Obsidian works may need to answer that. I don’t it’s a hard question or requires a lot of response. But "the devil is in the details).
- I tried changing the power setting on my laptop to “best performance” which didn’t help.
Any suggestions/thoughts would be appreciated
One last thought. I’ve been running the vault the way it is for a while. I wasn’t having these problems a few months ago. My vault hasn’t grown this much since then. I guess it could be a plugin issue where they aren’t properly releasing memory. The other thing that accord to me was the new “bases” feature came along about the time this issues started. Are their changes to the index that occurred as a result of “bases” that would significantly impact the index?