When Iguana service is old and has hundreds of channels, it tends to slow down because of git history. This can be seen when starting up service and “Optimizing git repositories” takes very long (15+ minutes).

Possible Solutions

You can follow the bottom steps in Quick Rebuilding Corrupted Iguana Repo Solutions

1. Backup the “edit” and “IguanaConfigurationRepo”

2. Stop Iguana service

3. Delete the edit, run, and IguanaConfigurationRepo folders

4. Restart Iguana

You should notice that “Optimizing git repositories” happens quickly on startup. Disclaimer: This solution has not been tested longterm