Hello,
We are on Houdini 18.5.
We are finding writes to network drives (using the File Cache node, for example) are 10+ times slower on windows than on linux. We have a 10GB network connection to fast storage. A file cache write that takes 10seconds from a linux machine (same network same storage), takes around 5 minutes on windows.
We tried all permutations and combinations of HOUDINI_BUFFEREDSAVE and HOUDINI_ACCESS_METHOD, with no success.
We tried switching between an SMB mount and NFS mount - same slowness.
A simple file copy using Windows Explorer of the same set of cache files to the network drive takes the expected 10 seconds. But When writing with houdini fx, this network write suddenly slows down at the last couple of frames and takes forever to complete. This is only for network drives, not directly connected hard drives.
Any suggestions to understand what is going on, or even better, a tweak that would speed things up, would be much appreciated!
