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

It's the default on the VM. 4 core and 8GB ram. And the actual host has dual six core amd opteron 2435 with very low load  

I'm running  6.2.3.1 but it's not a cluster.

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 ...