MaxNL

I just started a parity check on my unraid server and I'm seeing a speed of around 30MB/sec (parity disk is a 6TB and data disks are a mix of 4TB reiserfs and 6TB xfs - SAS2LP cards on 16x PCIE v2.0). I remember before upgrading to V6 and with all reiserfs drives (also 6TB and 4TB) the parity check speed was much faster (average at the end around 100MB/sec - SAS2LP cards on 16x PCIE v2.0). Is there any news on this? Cheers Max

Looking with more attention to the syslog I've seen the following: Nov 14 18:30:31 MaxMe kernel: Hierarchical RCU implementation. Nov 14 18:30:31 MaxMe kernel: ^IRCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=8 to nr_cpu_ids=1. Anyone knows it already? Cheers Max

Thank you eroz. Hoe someone can shed a little of light on that. Cheers Max

Thanks for taking time to answer. nproc gives me 1 Cheers Max

Hi everyone. I used the "lscpu" and "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and I got the following: lscpu cat /proc/cpuinfo Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit CPU(s): 1 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 1 CPU socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 44 Stepping: 2 CPU MHz: 2405.486 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 256K L3 cache: 12288K processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 44 model name : Intel® Xeon® CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 2 microcode : 0x13 cpu MHz : 2405.486 cache size : 12288 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 core id : 0 cpu cores : 1 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fdiv_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes bogomips : 4810.97 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: My CPU is an Intel Xeon E5620, shouldn't report 4 cores? Is there something wrong? Thanks for your help. Max

Hi, it is a couple of day that my unraid server, a small one not the one in the signature, has started a strange behavior. After it start I do "start array"and everything works fine, but after 15 / 20 minutes the samba, telnet and web stop responding saying the server is unreachable, while the console is still working (from there i can get to the disks or to the user share and see the files without problems). I attached the syslog where at the end there is - I suppose - the error but I haven't been able to understand much from it. Jun 3 11:31:49 GC02 kernel: sky2 0000:02:00.0 eth0: rx error, status 0xd67bd67b length 0 Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: <unknown>: hw csum failure Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: Pid: 1654, comm: nmbd Not tainted 3.9.11p-unRAID #5 Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: Call Trace: Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c1383813>] netdev_rx_csum_fault+0x31/0x36 Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c137e190>] skb_copy_and_csum_datagram_iovec+0xaf/0xcc Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c13bd66e>] udp_recvmsg+0xf5/0x244 Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c13c3558>] inet_recvmsg+0x68/0x7d Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c1374952>] sock_recvmsg+0x94/0xad Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c1374ee4>] sys_recvfrom+0x86/0xcd Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c1374052>] ? sock_destroy_inode+0x23/0x26 Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c10a7e42>] ? destroy_inode+0x30/0x45 Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c10a6237>] ? __d_free+0x37/0x3a Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c10a6237>] ? __d_free+0x37/0x3a Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c10a6270>] ? d_free+0x36/0x45 Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c10a634a>] ? d_kill+0xcb/0xd5 Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c10977fa>] ? __fput+0x197/0x19f Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c1376577>] sys_socketcall+0x19d/0x26a Jun 3 11:36:06 GC02 kernel: [<c1401190>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb The whole things is repeated more times... Last information if I start in "maintenance mode" it works without problem. Hope someone can have a look and give me some suggestions. Cheers Max ====================================== UNRAID 5.0.5 running without plugin Parity check completed without problem (in Maintenance Mode) Disk check (reis....) done without error ====================================== syslog_new.txt

Here is the screenshot from the"Documents" users share. Thanks to take the time to look at it. Cheers Max

Hi all, I just upgraded a 4.7 to 5.0 and I got a strange issue. I got User Share enabled (attached picture 001.jpg) with no included or excluded hd setting. I have 5 share created and 4 are reporting the right amount of free space while one (Documents) is reporting a wrong free space amount (attached picture 002.jpg) All User Shares have "High Water" allocation mode and 0 free space settings Could anyone give me some suggestion to check if and what kind of problem this could be? Thanks! Max

I got 24GB Memory no virtualization (I tried but no luck with passthrough). My motherboard is an ASUS P6T7 I installed the RC10 Test version and I also added the mem=4095M parameter to syslinux.cfg Here are some results: Writing - Console Command Cache Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=1 1,1GB - (81,5; 110; 112)MB/s Cache Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=10 11GB - (110; 99,4; 113)MB/s Cache Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=4 4,3GB - (99,5; 119; 99,4)MB/s Cache Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1M count=1000 1GB - ( 91,5; 110; 119)MB/s Normal Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=1 1,1GB - (23,3; 26,6; 33)MB/s Normal Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=10 11GB - (26,8; 31,2; 26,7)MB/s Normal Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=4 4,3GB - (29,1; 24,9; 26,9)MB/s Normal Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1M count=1000 1GB - (27,1; 32,1; 29)MB/s Upload - Network Transfer - smb - win7 > /mnt/{cache|disk2} Cache Drive - 1 File ~ 1GB - (30; 27; 29)MB/s Cache Drive - 1 File ~ 4GB - (31; 30; 31)MB/s Cache Drive - 1 File ~ 8GB - (30; 31; 30)MB/s Cache Drive - 1055 Files ~ 6GB - (32; 33; 32)MB/s Normal Drive - 1 File ~ 1GB - (20; 25; 23)MB/s Normal Drive - 1 File ~ 4GB - (25; 23; 24)MB/s Normal Drive - 1 File ~ 8GB - (24; 24; 23)MB/s Normal Drive - 1055 Files ~ 6GB - (23; 22; 22)MB/s Download - Network Transfer - smb - /mnt/disk2 > win7 1 File ~ 1GB - (51; 46; 47)MB/s 1 File ~ 4GB - (42; 42; 41)MB/s 1 File ~ 8GB - (39; 41; 36)MB/s 1055 Files ~ 6GB - (32; 31; 32)MB/s Without the mem parameter the writing speed was about 2MB/s. Cheers Max

Is this exclusively related to this motherboard? I've got 8GB installed in a Supermicro C2SEA and haven't noticed this problem... Will have to go and test this now! On another note, I've successfully upgraded to RC10. Parity check has just completed successfully, and took pretty much the same time as on RC8a. EDIT: Forgot to mention, my board has a Realtek RTL8111C which seems to be working fine too. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD I got 24GB Memory no virtualization (I tried but no luck with passthrough). I installed the RC10 Test version and I also added the mem=4095M parameter to syslinux.cfg Here are some results: Writing - Console Command Cache Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=1 1,1GB - (81,5; 110; 112)MB/s Cache Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=10 11GB - (110; 99,4; 113)MB/s Cache Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=4 4,3GB - (99,5; 119; 99,4)MB/s Cache Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1M count=1000 1GB - ( 91,5; 110; 119)MB/s Normal Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=1 1,1GB - (23,3; 26,6; 33)MB/s Normal Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=10 11GB - (26,8; 31,2; 26,7)MB/s Normal Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1024M count=4 4,3GB - (29,1; 24,9; 26,9)MB/s Normal Drive - dd if=/dev/zero of=./testhd2 bs=1M count=1000 1GB - (27,1; 32,1; 29)MB/s Upload - Network Transfer - smb - win7 > /mnt/{cache|disk2} Cache Drive - 1 File ~ 1GB - (30; 27; 29)MB/s Cache Drive - 1 File ~ 4GB - (31; 30; 31)MB/s Cache Drive - 1 File ~ 8GB - (30; 31; 30)MB/s Cache Drive - 1055 Files ~ 6GB - (32; 33; 32)MB/s Normal Drive - 1 File ~ 1GB - (20; 25; 23)MB/s Normal Drive - 1 File ~ 4GB - (25; 23; 24)MB/s Normal Drive - 1 File ~ 8GB - (24; 24; 23)MB/s Normal Drive - 1055 Files ~ 6GB - (23; 22; 22)MB/s Download - Network Transfer - smb - /mnt/disk2 > win7 1 File ~ 1GB - (51; 46; 47)MB/s 1 File ~ 4GB - (42; 42; 41)MB/s 1 File ~ 8GB - (39; 41; 36)MB/s 1055 Files ~ 6GB - (32; 31; 32)MB/s

I did a lot of test and try. Before I had speed of about 2,3 MB/sec in writing. Now I'm using RC10 Test and also using the 4095M memory parameter and everything seems back to normal. Cheers Max

I did check with ethtool eth0 command and I can confirm that the link is 1000 and full duplex. Doing more tests I noticed that copying to /mnt/disk2 I got for the first 7/8 seconds a speed of 30MB/s, after that it start to go at 2 MB/s. I'd like also to ask again if someone can share an old version of 5.0 RC so I could try it. Cheers Max

Updated, everything went fine. Unfortunately now I have a very slow writing speed. Copying a file from network (1gbit) to \\server\disk2\dir has a speed of about 2,3 MB/sec (megabyte/sec). How I can download a previous version? (5.0 RC) to check the speed in the previous version (I need 5.0 as I have only 4TB HD). UPDATE: I did few more tests. 1) Network copy > I confirm what I said before - speed around 2,3 MB/s writing to "disk..." share 2) Network copy > Copyng to cache drive get about 7,5 MB/s 3) dd command on "disk..." (/mnt/disk2) get 2,4 MB/s 4) dd command on cache (/mnt/cache) get 2,4 MB/s So it does look there is something wrong (attached my syslog) By the way parity check runs good at about 160 MB/s Any suggestion would be really appreciated. Cheers Max syslog.txt

I knew that to be the case, but I thought it was worth a check. I have seen this issue before but I'm drawing a blank on the answer. I have even had this myself.. when I added 4x m1015's it a took a few tries to get ESxi happy.. Thanks.. I think this is a good suggestion, I'll try with just one card and not all three at the same time...

VT-d is on in your bios? Thanks, I did check and it is. When VT-d is disable it is not possible at all to configure passthrough (edit button disabled). Cheers Max

Thanks Mikael I'll try. Actualy I'm still struggling with passthrough. I got M1505 card and flashed to IT Mode (no problems at all). Then I restarted scratch installing ESXi 5.1 When I try to make the M1505 cards available in passthrough, after I selected the cards in "hardware / advanced settings", I keep seeing the message: "Changes made to some of the devices below will not take effect until the host is restarted". I did reboot/shutdown, completely power off / on of the server but the message stays there... Not yet giving up but close... Cheers Max

Why the change? Because the AOC-SAS2LP_MV8 is not compatible with ESXi... I also contacted the supermicro support and they confirmed. Cheers Max

At the end I decided to change my SAS CARDS and moving to M1505... I should get them by the end of the week, Hope I will be able to go on with the virtualization project. Cheers Max

Unknown. No one has confirmed if it is. AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 passed to unraid is working just fine on my X9SCA-F from almost 1 year now just be sure to update the FW on controller to IT mode (there is a post in the forum how to do that - for LSI 2008 controllers) I got an email from Supermicro support stating that AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 cards are not compatible with ESXi. I will check the FW update approach and I will post back (it will take few days... pretty busy right now) Cheers Max I forgot the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 is based on marvell chip. The AOC-USAS2-L8i is based on LSI chip.

Unknown. No one has confirmed if it is. AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 passed to unraid is working just fine on my X9SCA-F from almost 1 year now just be sure to update the FW on controller to IT mode (there is a post in the forum how to do that - for LSI 2008 controllers) I got an email from Supermicro support stating that AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 cards are not compatible with ESXi. I will check the FW update approach and I will post back (it will take few days... pretty busy right now) Cheers Max

Thanks for the suggestion I've tried already restart, shutdown and reboot (with completely shutting off the server)... but no luck. Cheers.

Hi all, I made the installation of esxi and trying to install unRAID with passthrough on my 3 SAS2 supermicro cards. I've been able to set the three SAS CARD as passthrough in configuration>advanced settings. Now the problem is that when I try to create a VM machine I can't see any of the cards, the PCI device row in VM Edit is not enabled. In the configuration page the SAS cards are listed as "Unknown RAID" and it keeps saying that a restart of the host is needed. I did it but it keeps saying the same message: this device needs a host reboot to start running in passthrough mode. Do you guys have any suggestion? Cheers Max

I did the VMware installation following the instruction from Johnm (thanks everything was perfect) At this stage I want to create 2 Virtual Machine: 1) Windows (probably 7) 2) UNRAID I would like to ask for yours comments about: 1) I have two NIC on the motherboard and I was thinking to have one dedicated to UNRAID (pass through) and one shared (virtual switch) 2) The 3 SAS (24 HD) cards will be dedicated to UNRAID (pass through) 3) On the SATA ports of the motherboard I have 2 HD installed, one is the VMWare datastore, the other should be the cache drive for UNRAID (Is it possible?) Unfortunately I have very few time to spare on working on the server as the real world is pretending much of my attentions. I will keep you all posted.

Not at all... but consider it is quite a mess (I'm not a programmer). I will post it as soon as I made a small guide (you need to create an adhoc view in unmenu with a specific list of column in a specific order) I know I'm late on publishing the excel... Sorry for that. I just started again using the server. I'll try to make it available ASAP.

YES... until your wife/GF finds the receipt... Then hell breaks loose? Or, you can avoid all of that spending almost the same amount of money for something more welcomed