I have a 32GB vault that I sync between my Mac (M1) and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 using Syncthing. Load times on the Mac are quite reasonable:
Obsidian version: v1.7.7
Installer version: v1.4.16
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 21:03:15 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 24.1.0
- Total startup time: 1,493ms
- Initialization: 385ms
- Vault (15,516 files): 811ms
- Workspace (10 tabs, 8 deferred): 225ms
- Core plugins: 60ms
- Community plugins (3 active): 13ms
- Advanced Canvas (v3.2.0): 4ms
- Sort & Permute lines (v0.7.0): 2ms
- Recent Files (v1.7.1): 2ms
However, when I open the same vault on my phone, I get significantly slower load times:
Obsidian start-up time breakdown
Operating system: android 14 (samsung SM-F956U1)
Obsidian version: 1.7.7 (171)
API version: v1.7.7
• Total startup time: 24,148ms
• Initialization: 209ms
• Vault (15,515 files): 7,643ms
• Workspace (3 tabs, 2 deferred): 244ms
• Core plugins: 15,706ms
• Community plugins (3 active): 344ms
- Recent Files (v1.7.1): 53ms
- Advanced Canvas (v3.2.0): 50ms
- Sort & Permute lines (v0.7.0): 16ms
If I turn off ALL core plugins, oddly it still shows one as being active, and still takes quite a while to load:
Obsidian start-up time breakdown
Operating system: android 14 (samsung SM-F956U1)
Obsidian version: 1.7.7 (171)
API version: v1.7.7
• Total startup time: 24,148ms
• Initialization: 209ms
• Vault (15,515 files): 7,643ms
• Workspace (3 tabs, 2 deferred): 244ms
• Core plugins: 15,706ms
• Community plugins (3 active): 344ms
- Recent Files (v1.7.1): 53ms
- Advanced Canvas (v3.2.0): 50ms
- Sort & Permute lines (v0.7.0): 16ms
My vault is 52% images (15.54GB), 18% videos (5.49GB), and the remainder is a healthy mix of md files, PDFs, and other things.
Would love any suggestions. For now, I’m just choosing “Keep open” for Obsidian which avoids the startup time thing, but that’s not a real solution.