Calling authenticate() method take long

[dansharisan]

I'm new to FeathersJs.
One of my projects I'm currently working on is using FeathersJs, however I noticed that it's taking long (usually around 5 seconds) to login.
Upon debugging I found that this line:

return app.authenticate(strategy, strategyOptions)(request).then((result = {}) => {

in

node_modules/@feathersjs/authentication/lib/hooks/authenticate.js

is taking around more than 4 seconds to process.
Is it normal? My DB only has less than 10 users so probably it's not about the data.