diff --git a/turbopack/crates/turbo-tasks-backend/src/lmdb_backing_storage.rs b/turbopack/crates/turbo-tasks-backend/src/lmdb_backing_storage.rs
index add0c66a14831..af1022f0c7f0a 100644
--- a/turbopack/crates/turbo-tasks-backend/src/lmdb_backing_storage.rs
+++ b/turbopack/crates/turbo-tasks-backend/src/lmdb_backing_storage.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use std::{
     path::Path,
     sync::Arc,
     thread::available_parallelism,
-    time::{Duration, Instant},
+    time::Duration,
 };
 
 use anyhow::{anyhow, Context, Result};
@@ -249,7 +249,6 @@ impl BackingStorage for LmdbBackingStorage {
         meta_updates: Vec<ChunkedVec<CachedDataUpdate>>,
         data_updates: Vec<ChunkedVec<CachedDataUpdate>>,
     ) -> Result<()> {
-        let start = Instant::now();
         let mut op_count = 0;
         let mut tx = self.env.begin_rw_txn()?;
         let mut task_meta_items_result = Ok(Vec::new());