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- The disk where the server is running is really slow.
- The number of includes in the .ecf may be excessive, causing where large job files.
- Preprocessing takes to long. (i.e. replacing %VAR% in the .ecf file, with variables in the Node tree), removing comments and manual sections, etc.
- Server may be running out memory.
- The server is starved out CPU time, competing with other process.
When the ecflow server is started, the ECF_TASK_THRESHOLD is read form the environment. Job creation taking longer than this threshold are written as a warning in the log file.
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