[Buildbot] #2895: Builds take a long time to get started on latent buildslaves

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#2895: Builds take a long time to get started on latent buildslaves
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Reporter:  agateau      |       Owner:
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  undecided
 Version:  0.8.6p1      |  Resolution:
Keywords:  ec2          |
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Comment (by agateau):

 It's 4 minutes to ''release'' the locks, though I don't know if that
 changes anything.

 > Rather than just not checking for available builds when a latent slave
 starts up

 If I understand the code correctly, Builder.addLatentSlave() is only
 called when Buildbot starts, so there should not be any pending build yet,
 right?

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