Service initialisation times are extremely high with large numbers of layers about mapproxy HOT 3 CLOSED

% ab "http://localhost:8081/service?REQUEST=GetCapabilities"
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient).....done


Server Software:        MapProxy/1.6.0a-20130308
Server Hostname:        localhost
Server Port:            8081

Document Path:          /service?REQUEST=GetCapabilities
Document Length:        94524 bytes

Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   0.164 seconds
Complete requests:      1
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      94710 bytes
HTML transferred:       94524 bytes
Requests per second:    6.10 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       163.949 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       163.949 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          564.14 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:      163  163   0.0    163     163
Processing:     1    1   0.0      1       1
Waiting:        0    0   0.0      0       0
Total:        164  164   0.0    164     164
% curl  "http://localhost:8081/service?REQUEST=GetCapabilities" -s |grep '<Layer' |wc -l
     202