• Then there is a suggestion that the time increase gets worse as each package runs.

    Can you swap, say, Master1 and Master3 to confirm this?

    It would be useful to know whether it's a general degradation, as the numbers suggest, or a package-specific degradation.

    If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.