I didn’t actually notice at first, but over time – while working on a case manager solution, the speed of my deployments slowly decreased finally taking up to 10 minutes.

It eventually turned out it had to do with a huge (and growing amount) of log files in the <WASProfile>\ICM folder that was clogging the process.

So, the tip of today: If you’re having slow deployments as well? Stop your WAS-server, and empty the folder!