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Thanks Joe L. It was an old drive, I'll just replace it. I know many reccomend using a size matched to parity for cache since you could use it as a quick swap, however if I'm running SB, SAB, and others on my cache wouldn't I lose those settings on all those apps if I ended up doing this? Is it worth buying a 3TB drive for cache to match parity.

This is the output of the command smart.txt

That's strange, when I ran smartctl - a - A /dev/sdc I receive a report part of which says something like overall health failed drive likely to fail within 24 hours.

had to format the cache to remount it, finally was able to run a smart report. smart.txt

root@Tower:~# free -l total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7992596 6491488 1501108 0 143276 6189236 Low: 835768 530560 305208 High: 7156828 5960928 1195900 -/+ buffers/cache: 158976 7833620 Swap: 0 0 0 So I shouldn't worry at all and go back to solving my cache drive/plugin concern?

Using Simplefeatures I've noticed that upon transfering data to my server RAM useage spikes and stays high afterward. Almost like it is using the Ram for a cache drive and never clearing it. I have 8GB and it's useage is over 7 constantly. I've only seen one mention of something similar anywhere and not sure where to start.

I've been out of town and will check this week and report back. Right now I have it disabled and have another concern that I want to work on first.

Yes cache is sdb. I think I'm running it correctly and get the message: Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)

I'm having some trouble here, sorry. Tried to open the .txt and its so large I'm having trouble with it. Only program I have that will open it is Wordpad, and it's making it very unstable. Impossible to copy and paste. I guess I've never worked with a 2GB txt file before. I thought influencers plugins did not have to be stopped prior to stopping the array. I may have made the problem better or worse. The only way I could access is telnet, I found that there was an open python process running like crazy(61mil reads to the cache drive in a short time) so I killed it. Array stopped and was able to access the web GUI again, however now the cache drive shows unformatted.

Zipping my syslog resulted in a file 2.2MB which is still larger than I can attach. What can I do to attach it? When I attempted to run smartctl it worked on my data drives, but not on the cache. The cache is an old 40GB SATA I, it's possible it doesn't have smart features right? As added info RAM cache is high - using about 5-6GB and when attempting to stop the array I get unmounting disks....retry unmounting disks... over and over.

I downloaded the syslog from unmenu and it says its 1.73 GB, is it me or is that insane? Plus much larger than able to attach right? Where do I find smartctl?

2 days ago I installed sabnzbd and sickbeard on the cache drive, and assume I set it up right for the plugins to just use the cache, and my media share to not. Yesterday I installed simplefeatures. Last night the web interface for the array started becoming unstable and was very difficult to reach. I had to do an unclean powerdown and sit through a parity check. I started poking around this monring and found #1 the media share seems to be using the cache(I don't know why) and a ton of errors in the unmenu system log. Oct 27 08:56:10 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled error code (Errors) Oct 27 08:56:10 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00 (System) Oct 27 08:56:10 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 04 01 a0 00 00 08 00 (Drive related) over and over and over again. Can someone help me out?

Array has been completely stable for a few weeks. Installed simplefeatures today and since connection to the array has been spotty, eventually got to the point I could not connect to //tower or //tower:8080. Attempted to power down the array with the power button but would not cleanly shut down. Now I'm going through my second parity check of the day. Is there a good place for me to start trouble shooting (I also installed sickbeard and sabnzbd in the last 48 hours) or should I just get rid of simplefeatures and hope it clears up?

is simplefeatures accessed on //tower and unmenu //tower:8080 ?

While using UnRaid the past few weeks I have used unMenu and installed preclear/email notifications/sickbeard/sabnzbd. I want to check simple features out but can you run both at the same time? Do I have to remove everything else beforehand?