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title: App Start investigation

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# App Start investigation

## Empty account

Even on an empty account, it takes around 6 seconds to login

The login call itself is pretty fast: `0.526128083`

But then the background tasks done in status-go can take up to 4 seconds.

```
START THE LOGIN IN STATUS_GO 
ensureAppDBOpened:  518.079807ms
loadNodeConfig:  5.927255ms
setupLogSettings:  10.11µs
NewDB:  24.247µs
GetChatAddress:  51.693µs
Create:  2.567262ms
createNode:  114.059µs
setupRPCClient:  114.854µs
NewDownloader:  41.964µs
NewMediaServer:  38.78µs
httpServer:  24.868µs
    all services:  155.066µs
    Waku service:  3.014908414s
    Rest of service:  1.011112ms
        initServices:  3.016121546s
            startWithDB:  3.023986765s
                StartWithOptions:  3.026563943s
                StartDiscovery:  21.541µs
                    StartNode:  3.026859192s
TIME IT TOOK TODO THE LOGIN IN STATUS_GO  3.667949083s
```

The longest operation is the Waku service initiation (`node/status_node_services.go` line 124 and over)