DEADLINE takes long time to start the job, stuck at certain phase for about 10 min

Somewhat depends - if there are path-mapping rules to apply then that slowdown is on the Houdini side. If you don’t have any path-mapping rules to apply Bobo laid out a fix in this post and I put it into a file attached.

hrender_dl.py (35.2 KB)

The only issue is I did that back in 2022, so it should be okay for 19.5 but there might be some Python quirks. Let us know and we’ll fix it up.