Hey All, Does anyone know a way to speed up prefect flows start? They seem to stay in scheduled or pending for a significant among of time. My flows are served using the .serve() method. I would think it should be able to begin code execution immediately when the deployment is invoked/triggered? I’m considering moving a lot of logic into an API +Redis + celery system because of how slow it is. I guess it’s likely I’m not using prefect for an ideal use case.

Hi Will - thanks for raising this; it should begin immediately so it sounds like there is something up that we should investigate. I've personally seen this before whenever the subprocess takes a long time to get started. Could you share some details about your setup? Things like version, how many flows you're running, do you use

from_source

, and anything else you think could be useful for me to know?

@Chris White hey, sorry for the slow response, I’m not sure what details are relevant. We have maybe 3 flows. We are running one at a time although multiple are in one script. We use version 2.14.3. This is in kubernetes and flows executed as sub processes. We don’t specify a from source. It can be up to a 10 second lag from invocation until work actually begins.