Slow zsh startup on MacBook pro 14" (M1 Pro)

synchroazel commented 2 years ago

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Issue

Hi there o/ I recently installed Miniforge on my MacBook Pro 14" with M1 Pro, and the startup time of Terminal increased to 4-5 seconds (it was < 1 sec before Miniforge, when I had Anaconda). Without the .zshrc file, located in my home folder, the terminal startup is fast again.

Here is the content of my .zshrc file:

# >>> conda initialize >>>
# !! Contents within this block are managed by 'conda init' !!
__conda_setup="$('/Users/azel/miniforge3/bin/conda' 'shell.zsh' 'hook' 2> /dev/$
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    eval "$__conda_setup"
else
    if [ -f "/Users/azel/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh" ]; then
        . "/Users/azel/miniforge3/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
    else
        export PATH="~/miniforge3/bin:$PATH"
    fi
fi
unset __conda_setup

# <<< conda initialize <<<

Is that some issue related to Miniforge? Is it possible to achieve faster Terminal startup times?

Installed packages

# packages in environment at /Users/azel/miniforge3:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
aom                       3.3.0                h07bb92c_1    conda-forge
appnope                   0.1.3                    pypi_0    pypi
argon2-cffi               21.3.0                   pypi_0    pypi
argon2-cffi-bindings      21.2.0                   pypi_0    pypi
asttokens                 2.0.5                    pypi_0    pypi
attrs                     21.4.0                   pypi_0    pypi
backcall                  0.2.0                    pypi_0    pypi
beautifulsoup4            4.11.1                   pypi_0    pypi
bleach                    5.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
brotlipy                  0.7.0           py39h5161555_1003    conda-forge
bzip2                     1.0.8                h3422bc3_4    conda-forge
ca-certificates           2021.10.8            h4653dfc_0    conda-forge
certifi                   2021.10.8        py39h2804cbe_2    conda-forge
cffi                      1.15.0           py39h52b1de0_0    conda-forge
charset-normalizer        2.0.12             pyhd8ed1ab_0    conda-forge
click                     7.0                      pypi_0    pypi
colorama                  0.4.4              pyh9f0ad1d_0    conda-forge
conda                     4.12.0           py39h2804cbe_0    conda-forge
conda-package-handling    1.8.0            py39hb18efdd_0    conda-forge
cryptography              36.0.2           py39hbe5e4b8_0    conda-forge
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debugpy                   1.6.0                    pypi_0    pypi
decorator                 5.1.1                    pypi_0    pypi
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fonttools                 4.32.0                   pypi_0    pypi
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future                    0.18.2                   pypi_0    pypi
gettext                   0.19.8.1          h049c9fb_1008    conda-forge
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ipywidgets                7.7.0                    pypi_0    pypi
jbig                      2.1               h3422bc3_2003    conda-forge
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jinja2                    3.1.1                    pypi_0    pypi
joblib                    1.1.0                    pypi_0    pypi
jpeg                      9e                   h1c322ee_1    conda-forge
jsonschema                4.4.0                    pypi_0    pypi
jupyter                   1.0.0                    pypi_0    pypi
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jupyter-console           6.4.3                    pypi_0    pypi
jupyter-core              4.9.2                    pypi_0    pypi
jupyterlab-pygments       0.2.1                    pypi_0    pypi
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kaggle                    1.5.12                   pypi_0    pypi
kiwisolver                1.4.2                    pypi_0    pypi
lame                      3.100             h27ca646_1001    conda-forge
lcms2                     2.12                 had6a04f_0    conda-forge
lerc                      3.0                  hbdafb3b_0    conda-forge
libblas                   3.9.0           14_osxarm64_openblas    conda-forge
libcblas                  3.9.0           14_osxarm64_openblas    conda-forge
libcxx                    13.0.1               h6a5c8ee_0    conda-forge
libdeflate                1.10                 h3422bc3_0    conda-forge
libffi                    3.4.2                h3422bc3_5    conda-forge
libgfortran               5.0.0.dev0      11_0_1_hf114ba7_23    conda-forge
libgfortran5              11.0.1.dev0         hf114ba7_23    conda-forge
libiconv                  1.16                 h642e427_0    conda-forge
liblapack                 3.9.0           14_osxarm64_openblas    conda-forge
libopenblas               0.3.20          openmp_h2209c59_0    conda-forge
libpng                    1.6.37               hf7e6567_2    conda-forge
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libvpx                    1.11.0               hc470f4d_3    conda-forge
libwebp                   1.2.2                h0d20362_0    conda-forge
libwebp-base              1.2.2                h3422bc3_1    conda-forge
libxcb                    1.13              h9b22ae9_1004    conda-forge
libxml2                   2.9.13               h97d9dda_0    conda-forge
libzlib                   1.2.11            hee7b306_1013    conda-forge
llvm-openmp               13.0.1               h455960f_1    conda-forge
lz4-c                     1.9.3                hbdafb3b_1    conda-forge
markupsafe                2.1.1                    pypi_0    pypi
matplotlib                3.5.1                    pypi_0    pypi
matplotlib-inline         0.1.3                    pypi_0    pypi
mistune                   0.8.4                    pypi_0    pypi
nbclient                  0.6.0                    pypi_0    pypi
nbconvert                 6.5.0                    pypi_0    pypi
nbformat                  5.3.0                    pypi_0    pypi
ncurses                   6.3                  hc470f4d_0    conda-forge
neobolt                   1.7.17                   pypi_0    pypi
neotime                   1.7.4                    pypi_0    pypi
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nettle                    3.6                  hc6a1b29_0    conda-forge
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tk                        8.6.12               he1e0b03_0    conda-forge
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wordcloud                 1.8.1                    pypi_0    pypi
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xorg-libxdmcp             1.1.3                h27ca646_0    conda-forge
xz                        5.2.5                h642e427_1    conda-forge
yaml                      0.2.5                h3422bc3_2    conda-forge
zlib                      1.2.11            hee7b306_1013    conda-forge
zstd                      1.5.2                h861e0a7_0    conda-forge

Environment info

active environment : base
    active env location : /Users/azel/miniforge3
            shell level : 1

karlglazebrook commented 1 year ago

I've noticed the same issue on an intel iMac where I freshly installed Monterey (12.6.1) and Anaconda (2022.10). It is really annoying!

hmaarrfk commented 1 year ago

I've noticed slow startups too on my Mac. But I'm going to say. We are not anaconda. We can only help with Miniforge questions.

I think it has to do with some telemetry of Mac . Not too sure.

jakirkham commented 1 year ago

Am also on a Mac (M1 Pro) and use Miniforge. Have not noticed this issue.

It is worth noting that there are quite a few packages in the base environment (listed above). Generally it is recommended to keep the base environment slim and install other things in new environments. Not sure whether this is the cause of the issue, but it could be part of it

synchroazel commented 1 year ago

At the time I wrote this, I just moved eval "$(/<path-to-conda>/bin/conda shell.zsh hook)" which was previously in my .zshrc to a shell file in my home and symlinked it to anaconda, so that I could start anaconda only when I want it, and not every time I open up a terminal. I understand it’s not a solution, but it was a nice way to "speed up" my terminal startup.

But recently I happened to reinstall miniforge, and the problem was not there anymore. I'd say it is probably as @jakirkham said, since I've left the base environment untouched since the reinstall.

wyq977 commented 1 year ago

@jakirkham Hi did you notice a difference in the following cases?

disable # >>> conda initialize >>> part
conda config --set auto_activate_base false (do not activate base env)
with # >>> conda initialize >>> in bash_profile or zprofile (default)

I find the time in each terminal startup is 1<2<3.

I am more interested if you find a time diff. in case 1 and 2.

Thx

erentar commented 7 months ago

What sort of operations take place during this startup period? Is it possible to slim it down, maybe profiling it?

karlglazebrook commented 6 months ago

I think I figured this out, at least in my case. My workplace had some compulsory software installed on my Mac. including Microsoft Defender. This scans every single file opened, in the case of Anaconda startup this is likely thousands of teeny python files causing a several second slowdown.

If I stop this scanning from happening, by telling it to exclude the whole anaconda file tree, then startup is now snappy again.

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