# Interface is slow when running textcat recipe **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Tags:** usage, textcat, front-end\ **Created:** [August 5, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/interface-is-slow-when-running-textcat-recipe/5846 "2022-08-05T21:44:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![ryanwesslen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ryanwesslen/32/2969_2.png) [@ryanwesslen](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ryanwesslen)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/interface-is-slow-when-running-textcat-recipe/5846/2 "2022-08-07T20:13:28Z")
hi @hamt! Thanks for your message and welcome to the community 👋 Have you tried or can you try [logging](https://prodi.gy/docs/install#debugging-logging)? If so, can you tell which steps are taking most of the time? You can try by prefixing your commands: ```bash PRODIGY_LOGGING=basic python -m prodigy ... ``` You can also use `verbose` instead of `basic` to get even more details. What recipes are you running? It seems like the issue is with annotation, not training. Any problems with training? Also, are you using any active learning? Also, some recipes (e.g., `relations`) do have some issues with larger text (500+ words or more). I do think in general shorter text is better. Here's one set of tips to split up your tasks: > [@Prodigy is slow at loading annotations](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-is-slow-at-loading-annotations/4466/4): > > One option could be to split your JSONL into smaller files, yes. Once you're done with file 1, you can start at file 2, and if you ever restart the server, it'll only have to go through the examples in that file again. The hackier version of this would be to just remove all lines from the top of your JSONL that you know are already annotated in the data. Also, if you want to really optimize for processing performance, another option could be to do the pre-processing separately, e.g. have a scr… --- _[View the full topic](https://support.prodi.gy/t/interface-is-slow-when-running-textcat-recipe/5846)._