CostlyOstrich36
If I understand correctly than I believe that that's exactly what I did in the previous comment provided logs.
I have done also experiments with cases where i run task manually in the VM without clearml-agent listening to the queue, but directly running the task manually, and also the results and connects were fast.
From all 3 types of executions I've tested, the only problematic case with the long connect times is the one where I push tasks to the queue and the autoscaler is listening and spinning up VMs automatically, and these time ratios are consistent on every test.