Slow execution performance

[musicmate]

Describe the problem/error/question

Slow execution performance for simple workflows (webhook > home assistant > respond).

I’m seeing things taking a good few seconds for anything to start happening with workflows, doesn’t seem to matter how complex or simple it is. The execution status of a flow can get to and over 10 seconds, but then once its complete its only taking 0.3 seconds. Could it be due to this? Slow Webhook response performance + High CPU

I haven’t noticed high CPU usage though.

What is the error message (if any)?

Please share your workflow

Share the output returned by the last node

Information on your n8n setup

• n8n version: 0.225.2
• Database (default: SQLite): SQLite
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): default
• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): docker
• Operating system: Debian 11

[jan]

Welcome to the community @musicmate!

@musicmate

once its complete its only taking 0.3 seconds.

What do you mean with that?

[musicmate]

Sorry, long day!

So if I go to executions, and look at the latest execution of a workflow, I see a pretty reasonable figure as below

But when the workflow is first triggered, it almost seems like its taking longer to execute and it sits like this for a few seconds:

And then it updates to a more reasonable time