Hi,

in addition to Jos' advise:
instrument your code with a few calls to a tracer routine,
which shows time frome start of the app and from last call.
In that function write out to a protocol file and/or wait wind nowait.

This will possibly find you the slow part of the start.
And also - get the measurements if the app is startet without
server access (if that is not possible, perhaps start on the server)
to be sure it is not just a slow starting app <g>.

HTH

thomas