title: Grails startup is slow
body: <p>Help! I'm porting a large ruby app to Grails - but the Grails startup of my application takes more than 2 minutes.   </p>
  
  <p>I've already set dbCreate to "read"   I've ensured my high end dual processor desktop windows box gives Grails needed RAM (1 Gig).  I have no plugins installed. I have 170 domain classes that used to be ruby classes. </p>
  
  <p>When it starts up it prints out the line "Running Grails App.." and then hangs for a long time before it then prints out the "Server running" line.</p>
  
  <p>I just did something where I migrated all my ids to bigints. That seems to have worsened the problem. Now it takes about 10 minutes to startup.</p>
  
  <p>I am new to grails would you please give me a few more details on what and where to log the events at startup? As to profiling the vm, its been a few years since I did a lot of Java. What do you recommend as the best profiling tool to use now?</p>
  
  <p>What else can I do to speed up Grails startup?</p>