Archived post by heimlich

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getting the report

this is what i initially submitted:
i, I was trying to find some of the slowdowns that occur when Houdini stats on windows, and while looking at things with sysinternals “process monitor”.
Looking at events that happen it seems to add /scripts/sop or /scripts/vop and some labs viewerhandle/state, or install… which. of course does not exist. And it does this with 1000’s of files, the more you have, the more it happens. This take a considerable amount of time, and i am just wondering, if this is something that you assume to happen, or if there could potentially be an issue
And this is what i got from support.. This has was by design for flexibility but this has long come up as a sore point. You can try disabling this mechanism (at the risk of breaking packages that rely on this behaviour) by setting the undocumented `HOUDINI_EXPERIMENTAL_DISABLE_EVENTSCRIPT_PATHSEARCH` environment variable to `1` prior to starting Houdini.

I have a lot of packages running, and so far, i havent come across one thats “broken” due to this