Booting with FileVault takes 'forever' (6 mins!)

A couple of weeks ago I turned on FileVault on my 2014 Mac Pro running Mavericks 10.9.3. The first couple of weeks everything was OK but since a week the first logon after boot seems to take forever:
it takes 6  minutes after I enter the password for the first time after startup before the desktop appears (only the apple logo is visible with a spinning wheel)
there is no message in the System log during 6 minutes (for example I see '7:05:02 Boottime' and the 2nd message in the log is '7:11:01 ...')
if I log out and log in (ie no restart) everything is running as before (from login to desktop takes a couple seconds)
What are the suggestions before I decide to switch off FileVault?

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