Render times of certain project slow down

Hi,
i have a certain tv-promo-project where i have to render several comps which all include the same amount of text and just a hand full of additional graphic elements, e.g. a lensflare and a glowing line which separats the text blocks.
The text of the specific promo-comps are read out of a "main text comp" by expressions. The expression is as follows:
txt = comp("Master Textkomposition").layer("Textebene").text.sourceText;
txt.split("\r")[0]
The rendertimes of the project are constantly slowing down as the render queue and the process goes on. The first comp takes about 8 Minutes to render (it is only 10 sec long) and the second already 20 min, where the third comp reaches like 2 hours of render time.
I also recognized that even the preview in the timeline is really slow, although the used effects are usually not that performance heavy.
My System specs:
After Effects CS6 11.0.4.2
Mac Pro 5,1
Processor       2 x 2,93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
RAM                24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphic         NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048 MB
Software         OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
Drive c:           500 GB SSD (Apps & Disk Cache)
Drive d:           2 TB HDD (Project & Source Media)
Drive e:           1 TB HDD (Render & Media Cache)
Does anybody have a clue what this problem could be about?
Any help is appreciated
Cheers
paul

Thanks for the advice aka danke für den Tipp!
I'll give it a try!
Paul

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