Latest Arnold HtoA release Houdini 18.5.563 Win
Hardware: Threadripper 2990WX, 128GB RAM, RTX 3090
Latest version 5.6.1 has been extremely unstable for me. Rendering has been crashing either MPlay or Houdini with segmentation fault almost every third frame when I am rendering.
My system is extremely stable rendering for hours with Redshift and Arnold GPU in the past but now I'm getting constant crashes.
If this helps, my scene contains lots of deforming hairs (feathers) in very small scale. My crash always happens in htoa_geo.dll . Attaching log.
Crash report from aias; Houdini FX Version 18.5.563 [windows-x86_64-cl19.16]
Uptime 1052 seconds
Fri May 28 02:47:46 2021
Caught signal 11
Traceback from 8520 ThreadId=0x00002f44
CURRENT THREAD 12100
+0x7ff81c015f31 [strlen] C:\WINDOWS\System32\ucrtbase.dll
+0x7fffa6faf6bc [AiCreateAtStringData_private] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\scripts\bin\ai.dll
+0x7ffff1adc39e [std::_Vector_alloc<std::_Vec_base_types<OP_Context,std::allocator<OP_Context> > >::_Get_data] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\scripts\bin\htoa_geo.dll
+0x7ffff1acca5c [htoa::geo::Object::instanceFile] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\scripts\bin\htoa_geo.dll
+0x7ffff1ad66ab [htoa::geo::Object::instanceFile] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\scripts\bin\htoa_geo.dll
+0x7ffff1ae7f28 [HtoAConvertPrimVdbToArnold] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\scripts\bin\htoa_geo.dll
+0x7ffff1ae6297 [HtoAConvertPrimVdbToArnold] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\scripts\bin\htoa_geo.dll
+0x7ffff1ae54c4 [HtoAConvertPrimVdbToArnold] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\scripts\bin\htoa_geo.dll
+0x7ffff1aa09c3 [htoa::geo::Object::build] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\scripts\bin\htoa_geo.dll
+0x7ff8084d762d [htoa::geo::Detail::gdp] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\python2.7libs\_htoa_pygeo.pyd
+0x7ff8084d98c6 [htoa::geo::Detail::velAttr] C:\Users\aias\htoa\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\htoa-5.6.1.0_rf9edb5c_houdini-18.5.563\python2.7libs\_htoa_pygeo.pyd
+0x61c5aed9 [PyCFunction_Call] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc22a3 [PyEval_GetFuncDesc] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cbfbb9 [PyEval_EvalFrameEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc23a8 [PyEval_GetFuncDesc] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cbfbb9 [PyEval_EvalFrameEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc0f50 [PyEval_EvalCodeEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc240e [PyEval_GetFuncDesc] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cbfbb9 [PyEval_EvalFrameEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc0f50 [PyEval_EvalCodeEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc240e [PyEval_GetFuncDesc] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cbfbb9 [PyEval_EvalFrameEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc0f50 [PyEval_EvalCodeEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc240e [PyEval_GetFuncDesc] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cbfbb9 [PyEval_EvalFrameEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc23a8 [PyEval_GetFuncDesc] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cbfbb9 [PyEval_EvalFrameEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc23a8 [PyEval_GetFuncDesc] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cbfbb9 [PyEval_EvalFrameEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cc0f50 [PyEval_EvalCodeEx] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x61cbcea9 [PyEval_EvalCode] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\python27.dll
+0x001d3e90 [PY_CompiledCode::evaluateUsingDicts] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libPY.dll
+0x001e148c [PYsetPythonTracebackDisplayCallback] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libPY.dll
+0x001dea79 [PYrunPythonStatementsFromFile] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libPY.dll
+0x001de851 [PYrunPythonStatementsFromFile] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libPY.dll
+0x25afc87a [ROP_SohoOp::runScript] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libROP.dll
+0x25afd5ce [ROP_SohoOp::spoolScript] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libROP.dll
+0x25afc3e6 [ROP_SohoOp::renderIPRFrame] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libROP.dll
+0x25acac86 [ROP_Node::executeSingle] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libROP.dll
+0x1442e519 [IPR_SohoSession::onRender] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libIPR.dll
+0x1442d3c7 [IPR_Session::render] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libIPR.dll
+0x1119d9c5 [UI_Timer::handleEvent] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libUI.dll
+0x1112a338 [UI_Manager::handleEvent] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libUI.dll
+0x11156714 [UI_Queue::processNextEvent] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libUI.dll
+0x111542b9 [UI_Queue::drain] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libUI.dll
+0x111546c8 [UI_Queue::eventLoop] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libUI.dll
+0x1148b996 [AP_Interface::loadWindowGeometry] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libSI.dll
+0x1148c3cd [myWinMain] C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\libSI.dll
+0x1400019ce C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\houdinifx.exe
+0x14000232a C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.5.563\bin\houdinifx.exe
+0x7ff81cb57034 [BaseThreadInitThunk] C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.DLL
+0x7ff81e8a2651 [RtlUserThreadStart] C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Rendering is in a separate process, so these crashes are not render-related.
htoa_geo crashes mean that there's a problem reading data from the Houdini scene.
Do you have an example scene that causes a crash?
Converting materials and rendering in Redshift does not crash even when I'm rendering for an hour the whole frame sequence. So there are no geometry issues here.
So this must be Arnold related.