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Hi everybody,

We experience a serious slowdown rendering over network using ifd files because they are too big. I heard there is the possibility to zip the ifd files. By adding the .gz as an extension. But the file sizes still seem to remain the same. Are there settings to use? Or should I use a different method?

Cheers.

The scenes we are trying to render are alembic scenes.

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Did you generate ASCII IFD files or Binary?

When you say they are too big, what size are you talking about?

Do you copy the IFD to the render node or does the node read the IFD from a network share.

How many nodes do you have to send the IFD too? Do you send the file to all nodes at the same time?

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  • 8 months later...

Will mantra take the ifd.gz, or do you need to uncompress it or add a flag? I tried mantra -f name.ifd.gz and it spit out a bunch of junk and died.

Adding the .gz extension to the file name won't do anything. You need to actually run the file through gzip to do the actual compression.

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