[melvinmt]

I love using zsh (in combination with oh-my-zsh) on OSX but the only thing I've noticed after using it a year is that it's becoming very very slow. As in, it usually takes me 5-10 seconds to login to a new session (locally) and be able to see the prompt and type something.

Tab auto completion takes a second or two (even for files).

Combined with the git plugin I have enabled (which does "git status" on every prompt in a git folder) it's almost unbearable to work with.

I've looked into it a couple of times, there are some people with the same issues on oh-my-zsh's github, but I could never really solve it.

Would any pro zsh user know what my issue could be? I'm seriously considering going back to bash, I use it at work and it reminds me how fast the terminal can be.

[crazydiamond]

I moved from OMZ to Prezto for this reason (its a fork of oh my). But prezto is slow too.

The only recourse I think is to go back to a clean zsh and build your own .zshrc. There are other leaner zsh "frameworks"[1] I have read of, but i intend going back to stock zsh soon.

1) - see zshuery and zsh-m on github.

[pekk]

If you like zsh don't go back to bash, just ditch oh-my-zsh and roll your own config gradually, or try prezto (oh-my-zsh fork which pays attention to performance).

[EdiX]

> I love using zsh (in combination with oh-my-zsh) on OSX but the only thing I've noticed after using it a year is that it's becoming very very slow. As in, it usually takes me 5-10 seconds to login to a new session (locally) and be able to see the prompt and type something.

Clean the history file.

[remi]

You could put "echo" marks all over your .zshrc file to figure out which parts are taking the longest to execute.

[kyrias]

First of all stop using OMZ, it's a massive slow-down. Secondly use the git prompt that comes with git instead, there's no reason to use a custom one.

[radge]

just use antigen instead of omz - it can use any plugin from omz but seems to be a bit more lightweight