Extremely slow startup of nearly a minute

Before I start I know this has been discussed in #282 #632 #1044 all of which are showing speed issues in the 1 - 5 seconds range - however I’m experiencing a startup time of almost a minute.

Gulpfile:

console.time("Loading plugins"); //start measuring

var gulp = require("gulp"),
    rimraf = require("rimraf"),
    concat = require("gulp-concat"),
    cssmin = require("gulp-cssmin"),
    uglify = require("gulp-uglify"),
    autoprefixer = require("gulp-autoprefixer"),
    changed = require("gulp-changed"),
    sass = require("gulp-sass"),
    debug = require('gulp-debug'),
    rename = require('gulp-rename');

console.timeEnd('Loading plugins');

gulp.task('default', function () { });

Output:

Loading plugins: 47812ms
[15:27:34] Using gulpfile M:\visual studio 2015\Projects\CustomerPortal\src\Cust
omerPortal\gulpfileSpeedTest.js
[15:27:34] Starting 'default'...
[15:27:34] Finished 'default' after 334 µs

Something is very wrong if it takes ~48 seconds to bring in 10 dependencies all of which my real gulpfile uses.

Gulp version: 3.8.11 CLI Version 1.2.1

[anhskohbo]

I have same problem, when run any task, some times (almost every times) it’s take nearly a minute to startup gulp, then tasks running normal. And this happen only in Windows 10 machine (with SSD), in my Macbook everything running ok.

[simonamdev]

This is an old issue, but for anyone encountering it, I have a similar problem.

Gulp starts up fine, until it has to start a watch task, in which case I was seeing 60 seconds duration over the usual 3 seconds. This happened after a change I made to an unrelated gulp task, so I suspected that it was my fault, however switching to another branch without that change and the long time still persisted.

I investigated and it looks like my SSD is at end of life as it has run out of extra blocks. I ran TRIM to try and remedy it - however it is just a temporary fix. Luckily I know now and can safely get any non backed up data off the disk until it’s eventual demise. Strange I had to find out through gulp though!