Super Slow Loading and Slider behavior

I'm having an issue where AXIS takes a long time to load, then the sliders are slow and unresponsive.  I'm not yet "on the machine" but on the desk, so the INI and HAL are started but no hardware is hooked up to the inputs/outputs.  This is the 3rd computer and behavior is consistent.   Install is Debian 12 Bookworm PREEMPT-RT ISO .  2.9.2 Linuxcnc version.  Attached is my INI and HAL files.  They are based off a sample 7i97 config, modified for my desired functions.  I'm using two MESA cards, 7i76 and 7i97T.  Thank you for any help.

In your ini file, you have:

[TASK]
TASK = milltask
CYCLE_TIME = 100


try:

[TASK]
TASK = milltask
CYCLE_TIME = 0.010

At some point the cycle times changed
from milliseconds to seconds, so old ini files
can bite you...

That was definitely it!