openclaw - 💡(How to fix) Fix [Bug] core-plugin-tools ~3.5s overhead on every embedded run persists after #75520 fix — Windows + Node 24 + isolated cron jobs [2 comments, 2 participants]

Summary

Despite the fixes in #75520 and #77029 being shipped in v2026.5.7, core-plugin-tools still takes ~3.4-4.2s on every embedded agent run. With frequent cron jobs, this creates a domino effect where the event loop saturates and Ollama cloud requests timeout.

Environment

• OpenClaw: v2026.5.7 (eeef486) — latest stable
• Node: v24.15.0
• OS: Windows 11 (22000) x64
• CPU: Intel i7-12700K (12 cores)
• RAM: 48GB
• Model provider: Ollama (local install, but models are cloud-hosted, not local)
• Primary model: ollama/deepseek-v4-pro:cloud

Active plugins (minimal)

Only 3 plugins active after pruning everything unused:

• rowser
• memory-core (dreaming disabled)
• ollama

(Previously removed: feishu, acpx, telegram, slack, and others)

Symptom

Every isolated cron job run and every direct message shows the same overhead:

core-plugin-tools: 3441ms, 3453ms, 3534ms, 3567ms, 3554ms, 3611ms, 3621ms, 3642ms, 4248ms bundle-tools: 5810ms - 6166ms stream-setup: 4972ms - 5345ms TOTAL prep: 15279ms - 16036ms

This repeats on every single run — not just cold starts. Even consecutive runs for the same agent show the same overhead.

Effect

With a cron job running every 10 minutes (