[HOU-4224] Heavy Instancer RAM Usage Compared to Karma

[Nevoreko]

Hi,

After getting many RAM issues with instancers we started investigating and found this behavior, where loading 2 instancers with the same prototype reference will use double the amount of RAM, it doesn't matter how it's setup, we tried to have shared prototype, instanceable prototype, it always get loaded twice in RAM.

In this example scene we got some multiple heavy instancers as a test, and the RAM usage reads as such:
Karma CPU - 17.5Gb
V-Ray - 43Gb

https://we.tl/t-jVtjUg5yNz

Would there be any way to get on par with Karma on your side or some workaround on our side?

V-Ray 6.2.05.22651
Houdini 20.0.590

Thanks,
Marvin

[viktor_angelov]

Hello Nevoreko the matter has been logged into our system [ HOU-4224 ] We will reach out once a fix has been implemented.