I'm currently rendering out 1100 frames of an animation sequence and have noticed some odd behaviour with my render nodes using 3.0 dailies.
Using Corona 2.0, my nodes download the xrefs once as the first frame begins to render. As each frame progresses they parse the scene and join in when ready - this is what I was expecting when I tried the latest 3.0 daily (but it's probably the same activity as in the previous dailies - I will need to check).
Using 3.0 daily from 14-09-18, the nodes load the xrefs on frame 1 which takes about 3 minutes, they then start rendering. On frame 2 and every frame after that, they are downloading the xrefs again from scratch when they already have all the scene data, I'm assuming this should be stored in memory until the render is complete or cancelled - correct me if I'm wrong here btw.
My renders only take 2 minutes per frame on my new ThreadRipper 2990WX, if my nodes could join in without having to unnecessarily download xrefs on every single frame then they would be able to join in and speed up my rendering further.
My question is, is this normal/intended behaviour for xrefs to need a complete redownload on every frame, nothing is changing at all - same xrefs throughout the sequence. 2.0 handles everything well but 3.0 is problematic