Very slow initialization

[klonuo]

Hi,

I installed this tool through uv, and I'm currently in the latest version 0.17.5. Even now when trying to print version bm --version I wait 15sec to see the version, which is very slow.

My problem is that my CLI agent disables this MCP server with timeout. As I understood that setting BASIC_MEMORY_SYNC_CHANGES=false will disable background sync during startup, and setting specific project will avoid initialization of all projects, my setting is this:

{
  "mcp": {
    "memory": {
      "type": "local",
      "enabled": true,
      "command": ["bm", "mcp", "--project", "psfzf"],
      "environment": {
        "BASIC_MEMORY_SYNC_CHANGES": "false",
        "BASIC_MEMORY_HOME": "c:/Users/klo/basic-memory",
        "BASIC_MEMORY_CONFIG_DIR": "c:/Users/klo/.basic-memory"
      }
    }
  }
}

which doesn't affect startup time significantly.

Is there any other way I could try to speedup startup time?

[phernandez]

Hi @klonuo thanks for reporting a but. there should be no long startup. So something is definitely wrong. Can you provide some more info?

Can you share what system you are running and the logs, which will be in your c:/Users/klo/.basic-memory/*.log?

And also what agent you are using the mcp with?

thanks