henk1122

Ye I was afraid this was the only solution. Use no cache or a seperate SSD or a partition on the SSD.. SSD performance is needed tho for download speeds of 1gbit.

Yes, this is set to 50gb. But a torrent can easily be 100gb claimed at once.

Hi, Sometimes when downloading a lot of torrents (or big ones) the cache disk can overflow. This is annoying ofcourse, however, the docker image keep corrupting due this and docker containers stop working. Is there any way to avoid this... Because this get a little bit frustrating.

Say I've this configuration: share1 - cache type: "only" - 50GB share2 - cache type "yes" - 100GB share3 - cache type "prefer" - 400GB If share3 is writing a file, and it grows near the limit to the disk, I would expect Unraid is going to move files from share2 cache to the array. Why? Because it has lower priority then "prefer". If share2 files are moved, and the cache still hits the limits, then I would guess the oldest files from share3 would be moved from cache to the array. At this moment the cache is kinda useless; it's about use as little as possible and let your SSD space be wasted. Given you have not a lot of data on your "only" cache shares.

torrents can also be high IOPS, thats why I want them on cache. Other then that, the bug still exist. If you create a file which fits on the cache on creation time, but then grows, the cache can run out of space. That's not good.

Which other option do you suggest? If I put it on "yes" it will move 400GB of the cache drive to the array, which basically waste 400GB of cache. As temp workaround for the bug I added a "minimum free space" of 50GB which at least will leave some headroom now. That still goes terrible wrong if a torrent is larger then 50gb when the file grows.

"Yes" is not what I want for my torrent box. Then it will always move the files to the array if the mover is invoked. It should be in cache as long as possible (Don't want to waste the cache drive with being empty of course..). But if it runs full, it should move the files (from oldest preferred which seems most logical to me) . I can't find a setting for this. I'm unable to set this "full" limit and leave some headroom for new files (say 100gb).

Hi, Currently my cache disk is full and my docker containers are failing due that.. Unraid doesn't seem to be moving files to the array when a share is set to "preferred". I've 4 shares which should be always on the cache drive; those are set to only. (Docker, system and VM stuff). Those use little data. I have set my torrent seedbox to the cache, but on preferred. I would assume if my cache disk reaches a full level, it will move those preferred files to the array (I mean, yes is higher priority then preferred, right?). Currently the files are stuck and nothing is being moved. I tried invoking the mover with no luck. I hope someone could determine the bug. It's really annoying because all docker images begin failing and losed data due that. The temporary fix for now was to stop the seedbox and delete torrents to manually make space on the cache drive. This is of course a temporary solution because it's gonna fail soon . -- I've read a bit into it; it also seems that Unraid writes new files to the array if the cache disk is full. But apparently this doesn't work for torrent files (I guess because it could start with an almost empty file). However, this behavior is wrong and not wanted anyway. New files SHOULD be written to the cache because the cache is faster in general then the array. Old files should be moved away then from the cache drive to the array (if it's set to preferred).

I currently ordered an USB 3 to VGA adapter to see if that works.

Hi there. I'm currently migrating my ubuntu server to unraid. On the current setup, there is an ubuntu VM running in QEMU with a SPICE server. On the ubuntu-server host, there is running a x-server with virt-manager to view the VM on the SAME machine. This way, I've a usable office computer which basically runs as VM on the server. I also use the server as viewer connected to the display. This runs pretty smooth, browsing and office stuff works great. I want to accomplish the same setup with unraid. However, I tried using the VNC viewer option and it's very slow and laggy. Not very usable. Also I need some kind of viewer on the unraid GUI. I'm unable to use graphics card passthrough because I've an i7 3770k which doesn't support that. I'm also using the intel hd graphics of this. Could someone point me out what to use? Thanks