Doubled the ram to 16GB. Still a 7 minute deploy-time on a simple ACL line change.
But before I rebooted it used about 7.2 of 8GB RAM and now with 16GB about the same
I'm new into the ASA firepower stuff and I think the deployment times are really slow up to 5 minutes. I'm getting gray hair before they're done. And if I deploy a change on a live environment and figure out the rule breaks connectivity for my users ...