Compiling build file '/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/...build.gradle' using SubsetScriptTransformer. take a long time

For some reason the “step” SubsetScriptTransformer sometimes takes a long time when running in jenkins (in a k8s pod):

./gradlew clean build --info --no-daemon
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.1-bin.zip
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Initialized native services in: /home/gradle/.gradle/native

Welcome to Gradle 7.1!
...
> Configure project :
Evaluating root project 'sample' using build file '/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/test/build.gradle'.
Compiling build file '/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/test/build.gradle' using SubsetScriptTransformer.

not really sure how to debug or investigate so any input is appreciated.