Hi everyone,

I've recently stepped into a really strange issue to me, I wonder if you could explain me mechanisms that are happening during my build processes.

I am using the EC2 plugin to spawn a slave agents. I've prepared provisioned slave image with all necessary packages, repository cloned, and artifacts downloaded, but when a job is being run for the very first time, step below:

00:00:00.004 Building remotely on EC2 Android-runner (i-eb81dd28) (ubuntu-java-ec2) in workspace /home/ubuntu/workspace/Android-Devel
00:01:29.496  > git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree # timeout=10

use to run for longer than minute. After this first job is completed and I trigger one more build on that slave and this "Building remotely..." step takes only a second.

Could you explain me what is being done there so that it takes so long for the very first time after launching slave?

Exactly the same time difference appears in the last step

00:08:31.055 Recording test results
00:10:21.737 Finished: SUCCESS

versus:

00:04:32.545 Recording test results
00:05:18.314 Finished: SUCCESS

It seems like the long-lasting tasks are all involving some master-slave communication, but I couldn't find any information about this in logs..

Could you please tell me why such a differences between first and the following builds appear?

My plans were to spawn a node per built, but when total build time takes twice the time than build on long-running slave it seems not to have sense at all..