Thanks everyone, it seems I've boiled it down to "undefined network
problems" or "windows memory management" or some other annoyance along
those lines. The problem is inconsistent, seems XSI can't be blamed
for this one. The problems started while I was updating the plugin on
the workgroup, so it seemed to be related.
Don't you just hate that? ;-)
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On 2/7/06, kim aldis <kim(at)cg-soup.com> wrote:
> Some spdls have been shown to slow down load times a fair bit. I've also
> noticed that they seem to have an effect on property pages too, where
> changing a selection with a ppg open, when the ppg updates on changing it
> can take sometimes 4,5 seconds.
>
> I've had nearly 2 minutes startup on a non-networked machine. Removing some
> spdls helped a whole lot.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> > [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Arvid Björn
> > Sent: 07-February-2006 09:13
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: Slowness due to selfinstalled plugin
> >
> > You can go ahead and skip that last question, sorry folks ;-)
> >
> > //Loading Workgroup plug-ins: Elapsed time (ms): 72.51
> >
> > So that's obviously not where the problem is...total time is
> > 13.35 for startup according to the log, but in fact it takes
> > close to 55 seconds for XSI to start responding after start-up.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
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> > stockholm.postproduction | www.stopost.se
> >
> > On 2/7/06, Arvid Björn <arvidbjorn(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Enabling environment variable XSI_LOG_LOAD_TIME will help
> > your investigation:
> > >
> > >
> > > Sorry if this is a stupid question, I have the env set, but I can't
> > > find the output of that logging anywhere, in fact there's
> > no evidence
> > > that it logs anything at all except for the ordinary stuff..?
> > >
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> > > stockholm.postproduction | www.stopost.se
> > >
> > > On 2/7/06, francois.painchaud(at)sympatico.ca
> > > <francois.painchaud(at)sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > > > Enabling environment variable XSI_LOG_LOAD_TIME will help
> > your investigation:
> > > >
> > http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/Performance_Tips_%28XSISDK%
> > > > 29
> > > >
> > > > François
> > > >
> > > > > De: Eoin Murphy <eoinm(at)al.com.au>
> > > > > Date: 2006/02/06 lun. PM 06:00:24 GMT-05:00
> > > > > À: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > > > > Objet: Re: Slowness due to selfinstalled plugin
> > > > >
> > > > > Sounds odd....
> > > > > we have literally hundreds of self-installed plugins and addons
> > > > > running on multiple workgroups, and we've rarely
> > experienced those
> > > > > kinds of problems.
> > > > > Do you have a possibly recursive call in your code to another
> > > > > plugin (you have to be careful of the order in which
> > XSI loads plugins).
> > > > >
> > > > > You could try some simple profiling to see if it is
> > your plugin,
> > > > > and if so, which part:
> > > > >
> > > > > var tStart =d.getTime();
> > > > > //your code block here
> > > > > var tEnd=d.getTime();
> > > > > var tCurrTime=(tEnd - tStart) * 0.001; LogMessage
> > ("Running Time::
> > > > > " + tCurrTime.toFixed(2) + " seconds");
> > > > >
> > > > > Eoin
> > > > >
> > > > > Arvid Björn wrote:
> > > > > >Hey all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > >I've been working on an integrated submit tool for our
> > rush farm,
> > > > > >it's basically a jscript that's communicating with a custom
> > > > > >perl-script that manages submit and render. It's all
> > fine while
> > > > > >installed as a local plugin, but when I drop it into the
> > > > > >workgroup, all machines moves extremely slow or
> > crashes, or wont
> > > > > >start up or shut down correctly while running XSI..!
> > So is it a
> > > > > >known coffebreak-feature or did I do something bad?
> > Would a compiled C++ plugin be preferred?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >Thanks
> > > > > >-a
> > > >
> > > >
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