Really slow Undo in 2.9 especially on multiple undos

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I’ve been having an issue when using Undo in the latest release of blender 2.9

In the following situations I have noticed blender becoming unresponsive for 10 to 15 seconds:

  1. Undo after selecting multiple objects
  2. Undo in a large file (70 MB above)
  3. Repeated Undos
  4. Undo while weight painting

My Specifications:
Ryzen 7 1700X
32 GB Corsair 3000 MHZ Ram
Nvidia GTX 1080TI
Crucial MX500 Sata SSD
Windows 10 Version 1903

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  1. How did you manage to create a 70mb file?
  2. Did you try it on Linux?
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I’m on a 24-core Threadripper, 256GB of ram, NVMe’s out the butt, and 4x RTX 2070 Supers… Even I have a hard time with undo dragging on. The problem I discovered is that undo seems to be a single-thread operation. It doesn’t matter how much ram you have, how fast your SSD’s are, or how quick your GPU’s are at calculations… The bottleneck seems to be single-thread performance.

I’m really starting to regret spending $1,300 on an AMD threadripper.

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70MB is pretty small. I’m working on a project right now that’s 1.5GB.

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its a full city with traffic and trees, and life.
Its low poly so 70mb, if it were high poly then god knows what the size would have been

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but buying an Intel just for undo, seems kind of pointless

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My city also with trees and buildings and road sings and cars and trees only 37 MB

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The city i made is a lot more dense, with parks and alleys, cars, trash bins, light poles, electricity poles, electricity wires, restaurants, restaurant interiors, you get the idea

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How about trying to break the city into small parts. All in separate Blend files. And link them as instances into the big file. This will make it easier.

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ill try that out, thanks for the tip!

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A 70MB file should not be an issue for a 3D program.
And it’s not a large filesize by any means, either.

Linking could be a good idea, regardless. Overall “your file is too big” should only be an issue once we hit something ridiculous in the USD Demo file size range, though.

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Hey guys, So the issue is still there but I reduced it quite a lot by disabling the Crowdrender add-on i had installed. So each time I would hit undo it would sync the blender file and blender would hang till crowd render stopped syncing.
If anyone with the add-on installed is facing the same issue can try disabling it and checking if that helps. (it is installed if after each undo you get a small balloon notification at the bottom of blender saying “Local is synced” or something along those lines)