Very slow multiple add/delete operations #1073

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MrUnknownDE · 2026-04-06T01:34:15+02:00

MrUnknownDE commented

2026-04-06 01:34:15 +02:00

Originally created by @epiniguin on 7/2/2024

Subject of the issue

I installed Vaultwarden and Bitwarden Unified Beta for testing and comparing.
Both are installed as Docker containers on the same Debian VM(It is 8 cores Intel Xeon with 4GB RAM. So it is not a slow server).
Both vaults use a shared Postgresql installed on the same VM as Docker container.

Both vaults are empty before testing.
Both are behind the same Nginx proxy installed on the router.

I use the web vault, the Firefox official Bitwarden extension and the Android official Bitwarden app.

The clients and the servers are in the same LAN.

For a testing purpose I exported 427 passwords from Firefox to CSV.
I imported and after some pause deleted these items. After that I emptied the recycle bin.
I tried to import from web vaults and a Firefox extension - the results were the same, so I guess it is not a client issue.
Deleting and recycle bin emptying are possible only from the web vaults.

The results are in the table below.
When testing Vaultwarden with enabled push notifications it was difficult to measure the times precise because of web vault 60s timeout errors. Besides, after these timeouts the data in the Vaultwarden web vault stopped to refresh and it needed to renew the page and to unlock the vault.

Operation	Vaultwarden(disabled push)	Vaultwarden(enabled push)	Bitwarden(enabled push)
Import 427 items	24s	24s	12s
Delete 427 items	14s	130-150s	3s
Empty recycle bin(427 items)	41s	130-150s	3s

Deployment environment

Your environment (Generated via diagnostics page)

Vaultwarden version: v1.30.5
Web-vault version: v2024.1.2b
OS/Arch: linux/x86_64
Running within a container: true (Base: Debian)
Environment settings overridden: false
Uses a reverse proxy: true
IP Header check: true (X-Real-IP)
Internet access: true
Internet access via a proxy: false
DNS Check: true
Browser/Server Time Check: true
Server/NTP Time Check: true
Domain Configuration Check: true
HTTPS Check: true
Database type: PostgreSQL
Database version: PostgreSQL 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, 64-bit
Clients used:
Reverse proxy and version:
Other relevant information:

Config (Generated via diagnostics page)

Show Running Config

Environment settings which are overridden:

{
  "_duo_akey": null,
  "_enable_duo": true,
  "_enable_email_2fa": true,
  "_enable_smtp": true,
  "_enable_yubico": true,
  "_icon_service_csp": "",
  "_icon_service_url": "",
  "_ip_header_enabled": true,
  "_smtp_img_src": "cid:",
  "admin_ratelimit_max_burst": 3,
  "admin_ratelimit_seconds": 300,
  "admin_session_lifetime": 20,
  "admin_token": "***",
  "allowed_iframe_ancestors": "",
  "attachments_folder": "data/attachments",
  "auth_request_purge_schedule": "30 * * * * *",
  "authenticator_disable_time_drift": false,
  "data_folder": "data",
  "database_conn_init": "",
  "database_max_conns": 10,
  "database_timeout": 30,
  "database_url": "**********://**********************************************",
  "db_connection_retries": 15,
  "disable_2fa_remember": false,
  "disable_admin_token": false,
  "disable_icon_download": false,
  "domain": "*****://***************",
  "domain_origin": "*****://***************",
  "domain_path": "",
  "domain_set": true,
  "duo_host": null,
  "duo_ikey": null,
  "duo_skey": null,
  "email_attempts_limit": 3,
  "email_change_allowed": true,
  "email_expiration_time": 600,
  "email_token_size": 6,
  "emergency_access_allowed": true,
  "emergency_notification_reminder_schedule": "0 3 * * * *",
  "emergency_request_timeout_schedule": "0 7 * * * *",
  "enable_db_wal": true,
  "event_cleanup_schedule": "0 10 0 * * *",
  "events_days_retain": null,
  "experimental_client_feature_flags": "fido2-vault-credentials",
  "extended_logging": true,
  "helo_name": null,
  "hibp_api_key": null,
  "icon_blacklist_non_global_ips": true,
  "icon_blacklist_regex": null,
  "icon_cache_folder": "data/icon_cache",
  "icon_cache_negttl": 259200,
  "icon_cache_ttl": 2592000,
  "icon_download_timeout": 10,
  "icon_redirect_code": 302,
  "icon_service": "internal",
  "incomplete_2fa_schedule": "30 * * * * *",
  "incomplete_2fa_time_limit": 3,
  "invitation_expiration_hours": 120,
  "invitation_org_name": "Vaultwarden",
  "invitations_allowed": true,
  "ip_header": "X-Real-IP",
  "job_poll_interval_ms": 30000,
  "log_file": "/data/vaultwarden.log",
  "log_level": "Info",
  "log_timestamp_format": "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3f",
  "login_ratelimit_max_burst": 10,
  "login_ratelimit_seconds": 60,
  "org_attachment_limit": null,
  "org_creation_users": "",
  "org_events_enabled": false,
  "org_groups_enabled": false,
  "password_hints_allowed": true,
  "password_iterations": 600000,
  "push_enabled": true,
  "push_identity_uri": "https://identity.bitwarden.com",
  "push_installation_id": "***",
  "push_installation_key": "***",
  "push_relay_uri": "https://push.bitwarden.com",
  "reload_templates": false,
  "require_device_email": false,
  "rsa_key_filename": "data/rsa_key",
  "send_purge_schedule": "0 5 * * * *",
  "sendmail_command": null,
  "sends_allowed": true,
  "sends_folder": "data/sends",
  "show_password_hint": false,
  "signups_allowed": true,
  "signups_domains_whitelist": "",
  "signups_verify": false,
  "signups_verify_resend_limit": 6,
  "signups_verify_resend_time": 3600,
  "smtp_accept_invalid_certs": false,
  "smtp_accept_invalid_hostnames": false,
  "smtp_auth_mechanism": null,
  "smtp_debug": false,
  "smtp_embed_images": true,
  "smtp_explicit_tls": null,
  "smtp_from": "*************",
  "smtp_from_name": "Vaultwarden",
  "smtp_host": "*******************",
  "smtp_password": "***",
  "smtp_port": 587,
  "smtp_security": "starttls",
  "smtp_ssl": null,
  "smtp_timeout": 15,
  "smtp_username": "*************",
  "templates_folder": "data/templates",
  "tmp_folder": "data/tmp",
  "trash_auto_delete_days": null,
  "trash_purge_schedule": "0 5 0 * * *",
  "use_sendmail": false,
  "use_syslog": false,
  "user_attachment_limit": null,
  "user_send_limit": null,
  "web_vault_enabled": true,
  "web_vault_folder": "web-vault/",
  "websocket_address": "0.0.0.0",
  "websocket_enabled": false,
  "websocket_port": 3012,
  "yubico_client_id": null,
  "yubico_secret_key": null,
  "yubico_server": null
}

vaultwarden version: 1.30.5

Install method: Docker
Clients used:
web vault, firefox extension
Reverse proxy and version:
nginx/1.26.1 installed on the router
MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL version:
PostgreSQL 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, 64-bit

Steps to reproduce

Import 300-500 items from CSV.
Delete these items.
Empty recycle bin.

Expected behaviour

Vaultwarden and Bitwarden should work at approximately the same speed.

Actual behaviour

Vaultwarden is much slower than Bitwarden particularly with enabled push notifications.

Troubleshooting data

*Originally created by @epiniguin on 7/2/2024*   ### Subject of the issue  I installed Vaultwarden and Bitwarden Unified Beta for testing and comparing. Both are installed as Docker containers on the same Debian VM(It is 8 cores Intel Xeon with 4GB RAM. So it is not a slow server). Both vaults use a shared Postgresql installed on the same VM as Docker container. Both vaults are empty before testing. Both are behind the same Nginx proxy installed on the router. I use the web vault, the Firefox official Bitwarden extension and the Android official Bitwarden app. The clients and the servers are in the same LAN. For a testing purpose I exported 427 passwords from Firefox to CSV. I imported and after some pause deleted these items. After that I emptied the recycle bin. I tried to import from web vaults and a Firefox extension - the results were the same, so I guess it is not a client issue. Deleting and recycle bin emptying are possible only from the web vaults. The results are in the table below. When testing Vaultwarden with enabled push notifications it was difficult to measure the times precise because of web vault 60s timeout errors. Besides, after these timeouts the data in the Vaultwarden web vault stopped to refresh and it needed to renew the page and to unlock the vault. |Operation|Vaultwarden(disabled push)|Vaultwarden(enabled push)|Bitwarden(enabled push)| |---|---|---|---| |Import 427 items|24s|24s|12s| |Delete 427 items|14s|130-150s|3s| |Empty recycle bin(427 items)|41s|130-150s|3s| ### Deployment environment ### Your environment (Generated via diagnostics page) * Vaultwarden version: v1.30.5 * Web-vault version: v2024.1.2b * OS/Arch: linux/x86_64 * Running within a container: true (Base: Debian) * Environment settings overridden: false * Uses a reverse proxy: true * IP Header check: true (X-Real-IP) * Internet access: true * Internet access via a proxy: false * DNS Check: true * Browser/Server Time Check: true * Server/NTP Time Check: true * Domain Configuration Check: true * HTTPS Check: true * Database type: PostgreSQL * Database version: PostgreSQL 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, 64-bit * Clients used: * Reverse proxy and version: * Other relevant information: ### Config (Generated via diagnostics page) <details><summary>Show Running Config</summary> **Environment settings which are overridden:** ```json { "_duo_akey": null, "_enable_duo": true, "_enable_email_2fa": true, "_enable_smtp": true, "_enable_yubico": true, "_icon_service_csp": "", "_icon_service_url": "", "_ip_header_enabled": true, "_smtp_img_src": "cid:", "admin_ratelimit_max_burst": 3, "admin_ratelimit_seconds": 300, "admin_session_lifetime": 20, "admin_token": "***", "allowed_iframe_ancestors": "", "attachments_folder": "data/attachments", "auth_request_purge_schedule": "30 * * * * *", "authenticator_disable_time_drift": false, "data_folder": "data", "database_conn_init": "", "database_max_conns": 10, "database_timeout": 30, "database_url": "**********://**********************************************", "db_connection_retries": 15, "disable_2fa_remember": false, "disable_admin_token": false, "disable_icon_download": false, "domain": "*****://***************", "domain_origin": "*****://***************", "domain_path": "", "domain_set": true, "duo_host": null, "duo_ikey": null, "duo_skey": null, "email_attempts_limit": 3, "email_change_allowed": true, "email_expiration_time": 600, "email_token_size": 6, "emergency_access_allowed": true, "emergency_notification_reminder_schedule": "0 3 * * * *", "emergency_request_timeout_schedule": "0 7 * * * *", "enable_db_wal": true, "event_cleanup_schedule": "0 10 0 * * *", "events_days_retain": null, "experimental_client_feature_flags": "fido2-vault-credentials", "extended_logging": true, "helo_name": null, "hibp_api_key": null, "icon_blacklist_non_global_ips": true, "icon_blacklist_regex": null, "icon_cache_folder": "data/icon_cache", "icon_cache_negttl": 259200, "icon_cache_ttl": 2592000, "icon_download_timeout": 10, "icon_redirect_code": 302, "icon_service": "internal", "incomplete_2fa_schedule": "30 * * * * *", "incomplete_2fa_time_limit": 3, "invitation_expiration_hours": 120, "invitation_org_name": "Vaultwarden", "invitations_allowed": true, "ip_header": "X-Real-IP", "job_poll_interval_ms": 30000, "log_file": "/data/vaultwarden.log", "log_level": "Info", "log_timestamp_format": "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%3f", "login_ratelimit_max_burst": 10, "login_ratelimit_seconds": 60, "org_attachment_limit": null, "org_creation_users": "", "org_events_enabled": false, "org_groups_enabled": false, "password_hints_allowed": true, "password_iterations": 600000, "push_enabled": true, "push_identity_uri": "https://identity.bitwarden.com", "push_installation_id": "***", "push_installation_key": "***", "push_relay_uri": "https://push.bitwarden.com", "reload_templates": false, "require_device_email": false, "rsa_key_filename": "data/rsa_key", "send_purge_schedule": "0 5 * * * *", "sendmail_command": null, "sends_allowed": true, "sends_folder": "data/sends", "show_password_hint": false, "signups_allowed": true, "signups_domains_whitelist": "", "signups_verify": false, "signups_verify_resend_limit": 6, "signups_verify_resend_time": 3600, "smtp_accept_invalid_certs": false, "smtp_accept_invalid_hostnames": false, "smtp_auth_mechanism": null, "smtp_debug": false, "smtp_embed_images": true, "smtp_explicit_tls": null, "smtp_from": "*************", "smtp_from_name": "Vaultwarden", "smtp_host": "*******************", "smtp_password": "***", "smtp_port": 587, "smtp_security": "starttls", "smtp_ssl": null, "smtp_timeout": 15, "smtp_username": "*************", "templates_folder": "data/templates", "tmp_folder": "data/tmp", "trash_auto_delete_days": null, "trash_purge_schedule": "0 5 0 * * *", "use_sendmail": false, "use_syslog": false, "user_attachment_limit": null, "user_send_limit": null, "web_vault_enabled": true, "web_vault_folder": "web-vault/", "websocket_address": "0.0.0.0", "websocket_enabled": false, "websocket_port": 3012, "yubico_client_id": null, "yubico_secret_key": null, "yubico_server": null } ``` </details>     * vaultwarden version: 1.30.5  * Install method: Docker * Clients used:  web vault, firefox extension * Reverse proxy and version:  nginx/1.26.1 installed on the router * MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL version:  PostgreSQL 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0, 64-bit  ### Steps to reproduce  1. Import 300-500 items from CSV. 2. Delete these items. 3. Empty recycle bin. ### Expected behaviour  Vaultwarden and Bitwarden should work at approximately the same speed. ### Actual behaviour  Vaultwarden is much slower than Bitwarden particularly with enabled push notifications. ### Troubleshooting data

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2026-04-06 01:34:15 +02:00

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Reference: github/vaultwarden#1073