Deadline Slave takes ages to connect to the repository

It may be the broadcast message we send to tell all windows to sync:

Note that the regfont tool mentioned in that thread isn’t required now that we’re broadcasting that message.

Just to make sure it’s the same problem, can you check a few other logs? I’m expecting the gap length for that call to complete to be random. I’m not able to access some old cases at the moment, but I’ll try and take a look on your next response.