Cout99

I’ve recently upgraded my Unraid 7.1 server to a new motherboard and wanted to share my experience as well as ask for help with a strange issue I’m encountering. New System Specs: Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Pro WS W680-ACE IPMI (Rev 1.xx) BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. Version 4101 (Dated 12/03/2024) CPU: Intel® Core™ i9-12900K (12th Gen) @ 3.17 GHz Memory: 96 GiB DDR5 Single-bit ECC (max supported: 256 GiB) Cache: L1: 384 KiB / 256 KiB / 512 KiB, L2: 14 MiB total, L3: 30 MiB Networking: eth0 – 2.5 Gbps, full duplex Kernel: Linux 6.12.24-Unraid x86_64 HVM/IOMMU: Enabled The system runs great overall, but I’ve noticed that the onboard USB ports seem extremely picky about what devices they accept: A USB 2.0 flash drive with my Unraid OS – not recognized USB 2.0 mouse and keyboard – not recognized USB 2.0 UPS – not recognized Plug in a USB 3.0 flash drive – recognized immediately Strangely, if I plug those same USB 2.0 devices into the front USB 3.0 ports (connected to the internal USB 3 header on the motherboard), everything works as expected. I’ve already set the recommended BIOS settings from this thread, but the issue persists. Has anyone else experienced something similar with this board or chipset? Any ideas on how to get the rear I/O USB 2.0 ports to work reliably with legacy devices?

I recently upgraded from Unraid 6.12.10 to Unraid 7, and initially, everything seemed to be running smoothly. However, after a few days, I started noticing severe slowdowns, especially in the GUI. Eventually, the system became completely unresponsive, forcing me to perform a hard reboot. Issue: Upon inspecting the logs, I found multiple warnings such as: Unraid php-fpm[7718]: [WARNING] [pool www] child 3095784 exited on signal 9 (SIGKILL) after 15.407785 seconds from start After searching online, many discussions suggested that plugins could be the cause of such issues. I went through a tedious process of uninstalling plugins, rebooting, and testing again, but the issue persisted. Just before I was about to downgrade back to Unraid 6.12.10, I accidentally noticed high transfer rates on my Unraid USB stick. Root Cause & Solution: I recalled reading the Unraid 7 changelog, which mentioned a known issue: "Excessive flash drive activity slows the system down." The recommended fix was to create a file named fastusr in /boot/config/ and reboot: touch /boot/config/fastusr After applying this fix, my system has been running smoothly with no further slowdowns. Final Thoughts: The issue arises because when too much RAM is used, the OS gets pushed out of memory, causing data to be read and written directly from the flash drive, which significantly slows down the system. My server has 64GB of DDR4 RAM, running around 50 Docker containers and 5 vdi`s. My typical RAM usage is between 80-90%, which likely contributed to the problem. Why is this configuration file not created by default in Unraid? There is no reason for the OS to ever be pushed out of RAM. Ensuring that the system remains responsive at all times should be a fundamental priority.

I also plan to buy the board and would like to pass my graphics card from one of the PCIe 5.0 slots to my VDI. This naturally rules out both slots, leaving only the two PCIe 3.0 Mode x4 slots. However, I still need space for an HBA LSI 9201-16i PCIe 2.0 x8. Would it still function properly in one of the PCIe 3.0 slots, or should I perhaps consider opting for an LSI 9600 series instead?

It turns out the problem was with the existing /boot/config/plugins/dynamix.my.servers/myservers.cfg file. It got automatically removed when I uninstalled the Unraid Connect plugin today, which I had installed to fix the 404 errors yesterday. I checked my backups before the update to version 12.6.8 and saw the file was there since November 2022. It looks like there was a glitch with the Unraid Connect plugin not deleting this file when it should have after testing this one year ago. Big thanks to @zspearmintfor figuring this out!

@zspearmint It turns out the problem was with the existing /boot/config/plugins/dynamix.my.servers/myservers.cfg file. It got automatically removed when I uninstalled the Unraid Connect plugin today, which I had installed to fix the 404 errors yesterday. I checked my backups before the update to version 12.6.8 and saw the file was there since November 2022. It looks like there was a glitch with the Unraid Connect plugin not deleting this file when it should have after testing this one year ago. Big thanks to zspearmint for figuring this out!

Ran into a weird issue after updating Unraid from 6.12.4 to 6.12.8. My logs are flooded with 404 errors because the GUI keeps trying to hit POST /plugins/dynamix.my.servers/include/unraid-api.php, but guess what? I don’t even have that plugin. Looks like I’m being pushed to install the Plugin Unraid Connect to stop the errors, but I really don’t want to. Not keen on adding plugins I don't need. Anyone else stuck in this loop? Got any tips to dodge installing Unraid Connect and still kill those 404s?

I have examined the cables and everything appears to be normal. Could the issue possibly be related to the controller or the power supply? Furthermore, I would like to know if it is possible to reintegrate the HDDs marked as failed back into the array without performing a Parity Rebuild. If that's not possible, should I initiate the recovery process for both HDDs simultaneously or one after the other?

Hi Unraid community, I'm reaching out to you for assistance with a critical issue I encountered this morning. In my setup, which consists of an LSI 9201-16i RAID controller and an Inter Tech 4U-4416 enclosure, two adjacent HDDs have failed with error messages. Interestingly, there are no SMART errors reported. My suspicion is that these failures could be related to read errors, but I'm uncertain about the underlying cause. I would greatly appreciate your insights and experiences to help me determine the best course of action in this situation. Here are the steps I've taken so far: Checked the connections between the faulty hard drives and the RAID controller to ensure they are secure. Since the two affected drives are positioned next to each other on the backplane, there may be a correlation between the errors. It is possible that there is an issue with the backplane itself or another factor that is impacting both drives. I would like to mention that a parity check is scheduled to run every Monday at 00:00 AM, and it was only a few minutes after starting the check that these errors occurred. This timing might provide some additional context. Now, I'm faced with a decision on how to proceed. Should I attempt to recover the data from the damaged drives or replace them with new ones? What additional steps would you recommend? Thank you in advance for your assistance, and I look forward to your feedback and advice. Best unraid-diagnostics-20230717-0817.zip

Hello everyone, I recently updated my Unraid server to the latest version 6.12.0 and am now in the process of reconfiguring my existing array. So far, I've been using the Dynamix File Integrity plugin to monitor my files and noticed that every few months there are reports of corrupt data, interestingly, mostly with RAR archives. Because of this, I'm interested in ZFS as it offers the ability to "repair" data automatically, without me having to manually retrieve it from the backup. I have some questions about this: How do individual HDDs in the array with ZFS compare to XFS in terms of data integrity and repair? Would it make sense to rely more on ZFS pools, possibly even smaller ones, like three pools each with 4 HDDs in a RAIDZ1 configuration, to save energy? What are the pros and cons I need to consider here? Is it possible to integrate various ZFS pools and individual HDDs into the same array? I want to have the option to push data equally onto my shared folders without a pool filling up and thus preventing the respective share from taking in more data. If this is not possible, how do I proceed when a ZFS pool is full? Can I move data between the ZFS pools, and if so, how would this work? I look forward to your advice and suggestions for optimizing my setup. Thank you in advance for your help! Thanks, Cout99

@trurlI just moved the NVMEs to the cache pool and deleted warm-storage pool and now it is working! Thanks alot

@trurl Thanks for the quick answer, here is the file tower-diagnostics-20221004-1343.zip

Hi all I just started a few days ago with unRAID, and it is amazing! In the last days I recreated the array and formatted all disk, of course after this my default shares are gone (appdata, system,...). I saw this thread where @trurl said these folders will be automatically recreated, but in my case this is not working. I tried to restart docker, vm and the whole server. If I try to create these folders manual it is not working for system, properly because this is a special name. Is the any other way to recreate these folders?