https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/process/40127/slow-process-invocations-using-start-process-smart-service-asyncHi, We are experiencing slowness in processes calling other processes using start process smart service asynchronously. Its taking 1-4 seconds in some cases just to invoke the process using start process smart service. Has anyone experienceden-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/153231?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:56:29 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:42765621-78ca-4568-9ef0-afb915037716Stefan Helzle<p>No, it does not take that much time. You will find many discussions on the topic of node execution time vs. actual code execution time.</p> <p>And even if, nobody is waiting for that process and Appian needs a way to queue and scale process execution.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>