Hi guys!
I built my server over half a year ago with the goal of turning it into a media server. I am still a novice at all this stuff.
The problem is that ever since building it and setting it up, it crashes whenever I try to download anything. The clients I have tried is qBit and Deluge.
The behavior seems to be boot file corrupts, can access dashboard and containers from the IP:Port but they can't communicate with each other.
Whenever it's about to freeze up, if I am on the dashboard for my server I can see a message pop up saying like "Unraid cannot communicate to your boot drive, please change it" and a link to change it.
Things I've tried:
Changing the boot drive (5 times to different manufacturers, using USB 2.0). Starting to think this might not be the problem
Also when it tells me there's an error with the boot drive, it tells me to connect it to a windows pc to repair. Windows says 0 items repaired. This seems to get rid of the error until next download
Not using download client (still running docker container but no downloads) and using all my other docker containers. 30 day lapse and no crash.
Waiting a couple of days (max 7 days) to see if it unfreezes. No luck.
Changing cache pool (2 SSDs).
Reinstalling all docker containers
Changing cache pool from BTRFS to ZFS
Allocating more space to Docker (have 50GB allocated, my containers use 12GB)
Monitoring Docker allocation space when downloading to see if the files are being saved to a container volume. It is not being saved into a docker volume
Ran memtest86 several times, no errors
Now peculiar interactions I've noticed:
Only crashes when I am downloading files
Tried different download speeds, different amount of downloads, many or one download, limit speed. Seems to arbitrarily happen.
You can still access docker containers by using [Tower IP]:[Port] but the docker containers cannot communicate with each other.
Can still connect to the Dashboard after it crashes but says it is missing the key file (connecting boot drive to windows pc gets rid of this message) (also have lifetime key)
Can also post the hardware but not sure if it's relevant.
I was also able to download the diagnostic files and have attached it to the post.
I'll try any suggestions you have!
Thanks in advance.
diagnostics-20241122-1839.zip