Slow frame rendering

Hey guys, I don’t really do much animation so I was wondering if this is normal…

Between each frame rendered, I have a good 15 seconds of Synchronizing object. This might not seem like much, but considering rendering the actual frame takes about 20/25 seconds, it’s nearly doubling the time it takes per frame.

Like I said I haven’t done a lot of animation, and not for a couple of years, so maybe this is normal, but I don’t remember this Synchronizing last time I did it. Perhaps there’s a setting I’m missing?

Running in Cycles> GPU Optix.