Houdini slow startup

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I’m getting very slow startup times with Houdini. It seems to be looking for a Template profile. Is this something that I may have accidentally set, or is it something that should be there that Houdini cannot find?

I’m quite confident the slow startup times are not due to that - but likely due some HDA loading. But, we can investigate this! You’re best off profiling Houdini’s launch! Vrooooooooom!!! :rocket: :stopwatch:

Check out how to profile Houdini’s startup time.

This becomes extra easy if you’re on a recent version of ayon-core because you’ll have a “Terminal” launcher action:

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And then in that command line run:

houdini -profile-startup=debug.hperf

It will launch houdini with startup profiling enabled. The file will be stored in the working directory (the one from the command line) after launch finished.