# Reduce workflow tasks scheduled vs started

**URL:** <https://community.temporal.io/t/reduce-workflow-tasks-scheduled-vs-started/2556>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Tags:** workflow-options\
**Created:** [July 14, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/reduce-workflow-tasks-scheduled-vs-started/2556 "2021-07-14T08:53:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![nicolas\_meylan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.temporal.io/nicolas_meylan/32/687_2.png) [@nicolas\_meylan](https://community.temporal.io/u/nicolas_meylan)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 8:53am UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/reduce-workflow-tasks-scheduled-vs-started/2556/1 "2021-07-14T08:53:24Z")

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Hello Temporal team,

I would like to know how I can reduce the difference between scheduled and started workflow tasks  
I have already tried different thing like increase number of client worker but it does not change that much.

 ![peft-started-scheduled](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/temporal/original/2X/d/ded224488a5f2ad31b3a5923326d2bc01954dc15.png)

Metrics are these one:

 ![metrics-1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/temporal/original/2X/2/298b12a768be9875f9cf5f452834d8bb57b8b3d0.png)  
 ![metrics-2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/temporal/original/2X/d/d4f9006bbc7fff68a8917aa81cac482478a02859.png)

I have not find information about these metrics on the forum.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![nicolas\_meylan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.temporal.io/nicolas_meylan/32/687_2.png) [@nicolas\_meylan](https://community.temporal.io/u/nicolas_meylan)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.temporal.io/t/reduce-workflow-tasks-scheduled-vs-started/2556/2 "2021-07-21T19:37:20Z")

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Hello, I don’t know if my question was not clear, but I’m still looking for an answer for this as I don’t find information on documentation nor on forum.  
May someone point me to the right way to find this information?  
What means the difference between scheduled/started workflow or activities task?  
I understand the metric `temporal_activity_schedule_to_start_latency` i could improve it by increase number of worker, but for the 2 metrics aboves, i can’t find the right configuration to reduce the difference between scheduled and started tasks.  
Does this difference matter for workflow completion (from instantiation to termination) speed?