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Intermittent submission times

Hi there,

While the average submission time is around 3 seconds or so using the command line with prepared job info files, sometimes, very randomly, it can take longer. So far the longest we have saved logs of is 10+ seconds, but there is internal anecdotal evidence of much longer submissions. Since most submissions block user interfaces, this results in a subpar user experience (“i think it crashed or something…”). What would affect the submission times, and how can we troubleshoot / improve it? Since its quite random, we can’t really reproduce it reliably enough to be able to attach a debugger, process monitor etc.

This problem is reported almost exclusively by compositing artists, so the job files are relateively small (few megabytes) - 3d artists seem to be used to longer save / submission times on account of larger files to begin with.

cheers
laszlo

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