I installed yesterday Deadline client to a new Mac Studio (M2 Ultra chip) and I’m experiencing stability issues with the Workers. They would randomly freeze, stall or just crash and the only solution if to force exist and re-launch the worker. I have a few workers running on PC (intel) without any problem.
I have tried Deadline 10.2.1.0 without success. I updated my repo and client to the latest 10.3.0.9 and still experience the same problem. I also made sure Rosetta was installed and I’m pretty sure it works because I’m running After Effects with the Rosetta mode enabled.
I know I’m not the only one in this situation because I found quite a few threads on this forum describing the same problem; but I was wondering if there’s any setting I’m not aware of?
I’ve attached the Apple Crash log as well as the worker log (even tho it’s quite empty and not usefull).
Could you try running the Worker in nogui mode to try and get an Apple crash log from it?
To do that run /Applications/Thinkbox/Deadline10/bin/deadlineworker.exe -nogui. As long as there isn’t another Worker running on the machine the Worker should fire up and start working as normal. But without QT loaded (which may be the cause of the hang+crash) a log from a crash in nogui mode may get us another thread to pull on.
Its now almost August and there doesnt seem to be a fix for this?
I see it happening consistently on 15 M2 Mac machines in a production enviroment.
The monitor app crashes after a while on the license/repo server
Nodes seem to crash more frequently when they have gone idle for a while
this might be a possible fix, at least it lowers the frequency of workers stalling. this fixes macos VNC laggy and i suspect it might be the same with deadline. read more macos legacy tcp settings here
