Sonar taking minutes to startup

Do you have internet connection on this PC?
I have the same problem. If my Internet fails it takes up to 2 minutes to start SONAR without any project. In some cases Sonar is apparently looking for the internet connection to verify the license.
 

THambrecht
Do you have internet connection on this PC?
I have the same problem. If my Internet fails it takes up to 2 minutes to start SONAR without any project. In some cases Sonar is apparently looking for the internet connection to verify the license.
 

Yes, I am permanently  connected to the internet, but it's  a wireless connection.
Something to try I guess.
 

Are you running an SSD? 
If so there could be some slow blocks.  They can start to fail in a strange way which is to take eons to do a read.
One of our devs had it happen on his development machine where link times suddenly went from taking 30 seconds to 30 minutes!
How to spot this?
 
Grab a demo of HD Tune Pro or other disk utils like it, click the Error Checking tab, and run the handy Speed Map.
http://www.hdtune.com/
Anything in red is slow and potentially indicating a need to consider a new SSD.
In the interim, make sure the SSD has sufficient free space so it can better wear balance that may get you some extra usage.
 
Keith
 

Keith Albright [Cakewalk]
 
Grab a demo of HD Tune Pro or other disk utils like it, click the Error Checking tab, and run the handy Speed Map.
http://www.hdtune.com/
Anything in red is slow and potentially indicating a need to consider a new SSD.
In the interim, make sure the SSD has sufficient free space so it can better wear balance that may get you some extra usage.
 

Need to chime in on this thread, since suddenly Splat (Manchester) went from 5 seconds to load to about 40 seconds. SSD is older than dirt (5+ years) and only 15GB free of the 223GB available. I may be pinching its ability to page file, but wanted to run this utility first.
 
Update - All blocks are okay, but info page showed 7 had been retired with data moved from them, so the SSD has been pruning itself over time.
 
Actual culprit was "ReWireBridge32" I had installed from a post months ago. Found it by watching processes initiate during the Splat launch. Good grief... I have never even used rewire, so not sure what possessed me to install that. Initial launch of Splat now 4 seconds, repeat launch is about 1.5, all is good (yay).

Thanks Noel, that is good information for folks to know.
 
The very odd thing is I loaded that program a while ago (May, I think) and never saw an issue afterwards to the extent recently, but suddenly (not sure if I did something to trigger this) the load time jumped through the roof. The really interesting thing is that not only did that rewire jump up as a process, but it did it twice (thankfully it was named identical to the file I needed to get rid of). Pause... process appeared... pause... process appeared again... pause... SONAR loaded. It may have been triggered from loading iZotope stuff this weekend (although I VST scan manually), so I was installing, demoing, installing more, etc., but closing and reopening SONAR each time out of habit. I guess it is possible the installations played into this, but the effect of that ReWire lingered even after all had been completed.

fitzj
Mine takes about 90 seconds to start 1st time  and  if i close and open again it takes about 30 seconds.

 
+1
I have the same problem : (

Hi BobF!
 
I read your comments and paid attention to Windows Task Manager. I saw Windows Defender anti-malware was contributing to make Disk work on its full capacity. 
 
I also tried to change the anti-virus configurations, turning it off, as well as adding Sonar folders to the exclude list. But unfortunately it didn't work.
 
Also the issue only happens when I run Sonar for the first time, so I'll try more later.
 
Thanks!

You should also check disk fragmentation and Event Logs to make sure you don't have a disk with errors being reported.
 
 

Hi, I'd like say it worked! I've added more folders to the excluded list, and also disabled some Windows Defender functions. It improved a bit, as it took 50 sec to start Sonar on the first time, which includes choosing a simple project from Start Screen. : )
 
I'll keep trying, but for now is good. Thanks for the help!
 
Best regards