Catalina issues?

[Jim Curtis]

Having used Macs since whatever OS the Mac Plus ran, I’ve learned not to trust any Mac OS that isn’t x.x.5 or better. However, and you probably know this, if you buy current Mac hardware, you have no choice but to use Catalina.

Apple will get it right eventually, which is a supposition based on past history. Catalina isn’t the unmitigated disaster that some people are claiming. It has bugs, but none that have been show-stoppers for me, and I work with it every day, all day long.

My biggest wish list item is for Adobe to get with the program and make their products (and our GPUs) work in Metal as well as they did / do (Windows) on CUDA. For Apple to work the kinks out of Catalina is further down the wish list. It’s “good enough” for me so far. YMMV

Jim Curtis
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[Morten Carlsen]

My biggest gripes with Catalina is the fact that it is still not even worthy of being a Beta.
If you don’t HAVE to upgrade due to new Mac – don’t do it. Unless you like iTunes to become three independent apps

— Sierra is about 4 times faster than Catalina
— Catalina’s Security and Privacy is so cumbersome and annoying that I wanna throw my Mac away
— Third Party plugs and developers (Waves for one) need Terminal Hacks to work correctly
— Apple File System is very slow in comparison with HFS+
— Networking on Catalina is not even 50:50 anymore. It is 20:80. Keeps getting worse with every release it seems.
— Airdrop is as bad as ever
— Wifi drops often.
— Audio apps need twice the sample buffer to play the same sessions as on Sierra
— List is long and I could keep going 🙂

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[Morten Carlsen]

you may wanna read this

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-macos-catalina-is-not-apples-finest-moment/

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[David Lawrence]

Recently swapped the NVIDIA 1080Ti in my Hackintosh for a Radeon VII and did a clean install of Catalina. Was reluctant to make the change but the Radeon VII demanded it.

Gotta say, the system is now more stable than it’s ever been. Absolutely rock solid. It has not crashed once in the past month under heavy loads that were crashing the buggy NVIDIA web drivers about 50% of the time with Mojave.

Everything just works, including Thunderbolt 3 hot-swapping my LG 5K monitor. My system seems way more stable than my buddy’s new Mac Pro which was a nightmare for him to set up.

All in all I’ve been totally happy with Catalina, but I haven’t tried anything aggressive with shared storage yet.

My biggest complaint is with the new UI for Apple Mail which is a total clusterfu*k. Whomever thought removing column sorting was a good idea needs to go back and retake UI 101.

Hope everyone is well and staying safe and healthy out there!

–dhl

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[Jeremy Garchow]

For the record, I’ve been fine with Catalina on new hardware. The new hardware consistently impresses me. I have not installed Catalina on any older machines yet, but if that time comes, I would do a clean install. When you look at the disk and file structures of Catalina, something that isn’t really talked about, but it’s a big shift and a clean install would definitely be recommended.

[David Lawrence] “All in all I’ve been totally happy with Catalina, but I haven’t tried anything aggressive with shared storage yet.”

There’s some serious (but fixable) 10Gb issues when the pipe is under heavy load. What kind of storage do you have?

[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “There’s some serious (but fixable) 10Gb issues when the pipe is under heavy load. What kind of storage do you have?”

I just wrapped two big 360 VR projects that were shot in 7K stereo. For these, speed was the priority so I used an internal NVMe M2 drive for cache and working files, in addition to a bunch of USB 3.1 gen 2 connected SSDs.

Now that everything’s done, I need to archive everything and will be using these WD 10TB drives in this OWC toaster. I’ll be using Carbon Copy Cloner (and maybe Finder in some cases) to do the copying.

Will writing to these drives be a problem?

Thanks Jeremy!

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[Oliver Peters]

[David Lawrence] “I just wrapped two big 360 VR projects that were shot in 7K stereo.”

Cool. David, what app(s) were you using to edit and composite these?

– Oliver

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Lawrence] “Will writing to these drives be a problem?”

Definitely not, you should be good, David. The problem is specific to network shares over 10Gb and SMB or NFS and an obscured setting called “server performance mode”.

TB3 or USB-C or most any other direct connect drive will be just fine!

[David Lawrence]

[Jeremy Garchow] “TB3 or USB-C or most any other direct connect drive will be just fine!”

Great news, last thing I want to deal with are macOS bugs while backing up 20Tb of stuff!

[Jeremy Garchow] “The problem is specific to network shares over 10Gb and SMB or NFS and an obscured setting called “server performance mode”.”

Good to know. I have a ReadyNAS Pro I don’t currently use for production. I’m planning to upgrade it – the plan being retire the current RAID set, get a second, newer ReadyNAS and use this older one for backup, and load them all with 8-10Tb drives. The new ReadyNAS will have 10Gb ethernet and with a direct connection to my PC should deliver SSD-comparable speeds with huge amounts of space.

At that point I’ll definitely be connecting to 10Tb+ size volumes and doing heavy loads over SMB. Hopefully Catalina will be fixed by then, but if not, what is the “server performance mode” setting tweak for future reference?

Thanks!

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[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Lawrence] “Hopefully Catalina will be fixed by then, but if not, what is the “server performance mode” setting tweak for future reference?”

To be honest, I’d wait to see if it happens. Every manufacturer seems to handle it kind of differently. There also seems to be a way to set things up in nvram (semi-temporarily). If you get a new system, I’d imagine it comes with support, and you can bug them about the best way to go about it.

When and if you get the system, just hit me up directly, editstation at the gmails dot com and I can point you to some other resources as it’s a weird one to just kinda throw out there and post as I wouldn’t want to be responsible to any weirdness to people’s machines! ☺

Here’s a public write up about it from SNS storage: https://www.studionetworksolutions.com/catalina-smb-video-nas-server/

Jeremy