No, of course not. The initialization modules should only scan and register content types and register dependencies. Do you have any custom initialization modules? What are in those?

I have three initialization modules. I checked to see how long they took, and they execute rather quickly.

I am investigating where the slowdown is happening.

The source seems to be some caching system that the consultants wrote.

Thanks so much for confirming that this was a problem and not normal operations in Epi. :)

Update on this one. I finally figured out what was going on. It was the custom cached written by the contractors. They made a mistake, and for each content called, it was writing a record in the databsae. That is why it was taking so long.