workermaster

Thanks! I have been struggeling with installing the pluging and your answer helped me. Renaming it to the 3.9 version was the problem. Could you please help me setup the plugin? I can't find a manual. For instance: Check interval. I need to set a number there but I do not know in what timescale that is. Is 0.5 every half second or half day? And the same goes for removed by date. Is that field per day or per hour?

Hi, I am having issues with Deluge and the support button on the container send me here. Deluge is downloading fine but completed downloads are not removed. As a result my hdd fills up and it stops downloading. I have seeding set to 0 so when they are done downloading they should stop all activity. I am using Binhex Sonarr. Sonarr is moving the dowloads but not removing them from Deluge. I tried installing the autoremoveplus plugin but Deluge does not accept the .egg file. It just creates an [objectfilelist]. Could anyone help me figuring out why completed downloads are not deleted?

Right. It has been a little while but a lot has happened. I ordered a Samsung 970 EVO to install my Windows VM and changed my cache drive to the old ssd that my previous (laggy) install ran on. After booting Unraid suddely can't use my second GPU. It has no hardware ID. I also had a lot of trouble getting a new VM up and running. GPU passthrough just wouldn't work. However after rebooting a couple thousand times it did work. Surprisingly my new VM is snappy. There is no lag. So problem solved right? Nope. My new VM does stutter when DisplayFusion is running. If I stop the program then the lag is gone. Strangely I did try turning that off (and even uninstalling it) with the previous install. It did not help there. Since I use a 49 inch ultrawide, I do need DisplayFusion to run. So now the question is why that program slows my VM down. I also noticed that dragging Bittorrent (with or without downloads running) will lag. However since I have Sonarr and Radarr running in Dockers, that is not an issue. I have not tried setting emulator pins on my CPU yet. That will be my next step in figuring out why DisplayFusion is messing with my system.

I feel like an idiot but I do not understand the settings I need to add to the xml. Are the emulator pins the cpu cores that the vm will be using? Or should the emulator pins be the ones that the vm will not be using? What would the iothread need to be? I would like my vm to run on the last 4 cores. I know that the first 4 are a bit faster (saw that in Ryzen master) but I also saw that unraid loves using the first 4 cores. Even if I isolate them.

As you can see in the VM template, I have passed through a ssd. /dev/sda. I did more testing with cpu pinning. It has not helped yet.

Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that I have tried older versions of the i440. None worked better. I have been playing around with cpu isolation and pinning. It seems Unraid sometimes uses isolated cored. If Windows is also accessing them, then I get to see the lagging issues a lot more. I will try some more things tomorrow or this weekend.

Thanks for your reply. I did forget to mention that I have already installed my Windows from scratch last saturday and it is using i400fx-5.2. Should i downgrade to 4.2? I can't seem to find a list that shows me the differences between those versions. Though I also have tried 4.2 before and got the same stuttering. But I could try it again. I have never worked with the XML files. So I do not know what to do there and how to adjust your example. I will try to work out what to do later today or tomorrow. Found my XML. This is how my VM is running now: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <domain type='kvm' id='1'> <name>Windows 10</name> <uuid>a03a505b-a337-7063-b780-baf3f6f1f2b0</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 10" icon="windows.png" os="windows10"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>16777216</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>6</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='4'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='12'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='13'/> <vcpupin vcpu='4' cpuset='7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='5' cpuset='15'/> </cputune> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-5.1'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/a03a505b-a337-7063-b780-baf3f6f1f2b0_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none' migratable='on'> <topology sockets='1' dies='1' cores='3' threads='2'/> <cache mode='passthrough'/> <feature policy='require' name='topoext'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source dev='/dev/sdf' index='3'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <alias name='virtio-disk2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source dev='/dev/sdc' index='2'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdd' bus='virtio'/> <alias name='virtio-disk3'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/mnt/user/isos/virtio-win-0.1.190-1.iso' index='1'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <alias name='ide0-0-1'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='nec-xhci' ports='15'> <alias name='usb'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <alias name='ide'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <alias name='virtio-serial0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'> <alias name='pci.0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:f3:17:1b'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/0'/> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> <alias name='serial0'/> </serial> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/0'> <source path='/dev/pts/0'/> <target type='serial' port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-1-Windows 10/org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0' state='disconnected'/> <alias name='channel0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'> <alias name='input0'/> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </input> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'> <alias name='input1'/> </input> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'> <alias name='input2'/> </input> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x09' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev0'/> <rom file='/mnt/user/Plex/MSI.GTX660Ti.2048.120828.rom'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x0b' slot='0x00' function='0x4'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x0b' slot='0x00' function='0x3'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <memballoon model='none'/> </devices> <seclabel type='dynamic' model='dac' relabel='yes'> <label>+0:+100</label> <imagelabel>+0:+100</imagelabel> </seclabel> </domain>

I have 9211-8i sas controller. I could try to pass that to the VM

Another update: I tested with disabling the meltdown fix. Did not help. I disabled docker cpu pinnings. Did not help. Ran Latencymonitor and WhySoSlow. They did show a large Kernel and App latency. Can anybody help with the latency problem? I hope that is the issue here. If not then I will have to investigate further.

Somebody else helped me test the cards today. They are dead.

Update: After finding some tips about threads I did some more testing. Unfortunatly it did not help. Changing the amount of cores, disabling hyperthreading or pinning did not improve the performance. Anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks for your reply. As stated above Unraid does not see the card. There is no mention of it in the devicelist. The heatsink is cold. It does not warm up. I have tried that but it doesn't work. I have got another motherboard to start the efi flash but that just tells me that it can't find an LSI card. It does appear that the card is dead.

Hi, After reader some topics about a new HBA, I decided to buy 2 used LSI 9211-8i cards. They arrived yesterday. Both however do not seem to be picked up by my motherboard (Asus x470-f). I do not get a boot screen from the card. I know the cards are not in IT mode (and I can't flash them myself). So should't they show a boot screen? I have tried all the slots on the motherboard that they fit in. Unraid and a bare metal Windows do not seem to see the cards. Does anybody know if those cards are compatible with my motherboard? If not what HBA is? I would like to add more SATA drives but the motherboard only has 6 ports.

To add more info: I am downloading a few games from Steam. My system starts to stutter. Though I can also see that it is busy with the download and writing it to the ssd: Could it be that the lagging / stuttering is caused by disk IO? The ssd should be able to handle that though.

Hi all, I am new on this forum so please exuse any mistakes I make with regards to forum etiquette. A few weeks ago I downloaded Unraid and started using the trail version. Setting up the storage array was easy enough and after using it for 2 weeks I felt confident enough to create a Windows 10vm and merge the Unraid system with my main system. Unraid was running on some older hardware that I had but I prefer to have one system that does everything. Anyway after some issues with setting up the Windows vm (and getting help from the Dutch forum on tweakers.net) I now have a windows 10 vm running with GPU passthrough. The system runs and is usable but there are issues with performance. Running benchmarks is fine and even gaming works fine. The problem So what is the problem? Windows is slow, laggy. Draggin a window across the desktop results in stutters. This gets much much worse when copying data from an external hdd to the array. As a result the vm is not usable when it is accessing the array. My setup I have 4 8tb hdd's running as an array. One of these drives is for parity. I have currently unassigned the parity in order to copy back the 15.5tb of data faster. There is a 120gb ssd for cache that is not used by the array. It is only used for docker containers. There is 1 1tb ssd that is not assigned. That ssd is used for my Windows vm. The vm also has one motherboard usb controller passed through. There is an external 10tb hdd connected to one of those usb ports. I have 2 gpu's. Both GTX 660 ti. One of these is passed through to my vm. They are from Asus and do not support uefi bios. I had to use a MSI vbios in order to pass it through. Here is a screenshot of my drives: Here is screenshot of my Windows template: (the Western Digital is at the time of the screenshot not connected to the vm for a test) The cpu pinning: Copying files from the external hdd connected to the Windows vm (not the copy one.) to the array runs at about 100MB a second. Even though the drives can handle 180. Copying the files back from the array to the hdd results in this 180MB speed. For me it is not a problem if copying the data is a bit slower but when copying Windows starts to run as slow as an old Windows 3.1 machine. But even if I am not copying data it is still laggy when dragging windows or opening something. Its like I am using my windows through something like Teamviewer even though I am not. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Kind regards, Workermaster.