Houdini 18.5 - Tasks incorrectly cooking extra nodes

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it’s still affected by the bug.

but a solution may have been found :

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

Hello everyone, I believe I have figured out what the issue is for this based on the test scene that bazuka provided. When we are performing pathmapping on the houdini scene files we are currently calling hou.fileReferences which appears to be causing every DOP (and maybe other node types) to repeatedly cook out their results. I have suppressed this cooking in the attached script, if any of you would be able to test it with your scenes and confirm if it fixes it for you that would be much app…

will try it out for myself tomorrow.