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  • The disk where the server is running is really is  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 of CPU time, competing with other process.

When the ecflow server is started, the ECF_TASK_THRESHOLD is read form from the environment.

Job creation taking longer than this threshold are written as a warning in the log file.

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In ecflow 5 series, they will be notified in the GUI  that the  task has exceeded this threshold, by a new icon.This will allow early diagnoses of a looming problem.