opatchauto performance

Latest Opatchauto on 19.19 Linux;

Opatchauto is running quite slow

Both in apply and prereq mode

Lots of time is spend in the beginning, just AFTER line

"OPatchauto session is initiated at ..."

and

BEFORE line

"System initialization log file is ..

 The id for this session is .."

This can be about 1 hour

But what is it doing at that moment ?

At the end, when the elapsed time is displayed,

this time is NOT taken into account,

which leds to assume it wasting huge times with something that should take little time.