#Agents very slow responses

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civic sluice
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Like others the agents are very slow to respond. I'm on a hostinger VPS.

Versions tested:

  • 2026.4.27
  • 2026.5.2

Measured results:

  • 2026.4.27: avg wall 25.9s, avg agent 14.3s. Logs showed event-loop/cpu warnings, max event-loop delay about 8.5-9.0s.
  • 2026.5.2 after config repair: avg wall 16.2s, avg agent 10.1s, steady wall excluding first 14.7s. First turn about 30s.
  • 2026.5.2 after slimming Odin AGENTS.md to 5,750 bytes: avg wall 14.4s, avg agent 8.4s, steady wall 13.5s. First turn improved to 22.4s.
  • Odin tools.profile="messaging": did not help. Avg wall 17.7s, steady wall 14.9s, avg agent 9.3s. Reverted.

Confirmed:

  • Upgrade helped: 25.9s avg wall to 16.2s.
  • Slim AGENTS.md helped further: 16.2s to 14.4s.
  • Plain chat still usually 8-15s.
  • Tool/diagnostic turns can still be 20-40s.
  • One 26s turn happened before any multi-agent burst. It was a tool-using diagnostic turn, including a failed python command because only python3 exists. Simple follow-ups in that window were about 8.4s.
  • USER.md existed but was symlinked outside workspace. OpenClaw marked it missing. Replacing symlinks with real small files fixed injection. This affects context, not latency.

Remaining bottleneck:

  • core-plugin-tool stages repeatedly take about 2.3-2.6s per turn.
  • Most is openclaw-tools:pdf-tool, about 2.1-2.9s.
  • I do not use PDFs with these agents.
  • Added tools.deny=["pdf"], validated, restarted.
  • pdf-tool still prepared and still cost about 2.3s.
  • tools.profile="messaging" still left 80 tools and 71k schema chars.

Questions:

  1. How should I reduce MCP/plugin tool schema load per agent?
  2. Is 8-15s steady Discord response expected for openai-codex/gpt-5.4 on 2026.5.2?

Any way to get it lots faster?

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tired ledge
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speed downgrade