Unfrosted8575

Thank you very much. The proposed alternative did the job. I didn't noticed it at first, feel stupid, sorry.

Oh well, that explains a lot. I installed it because I needed to turn on a VM outside of Unraid Admin GUI. I saw a post about someone suggesting to use a Wake on Lan APP to accomplish that task. When I downloaded the app it says I needed a Python 2 package and that I could download it using this plugin, but at this point, I suppose not, and maybe also the Wake VM On LAN App may be obsolete to. Any ideas? Thanks,

Problem: "Please wait, retrieving plugin information ..." Every time I open the plugin, it is stuck with that statement. I Already tried: Safari Firefox Firefox Incognito Mode Remove "Enhanced Tracking Protection" Remove Ad-Blockers Disconnect from VPN Re-Installing the Plug-in No luck. Every time I open it, it does not produce any list and I cannot search anything. The plugin states it is up to date. If anyone have any idea it would be very welcome, thanks.

Oh damn, thanks. I did not understand. I did it, but no change. I'll leave my powertop output, maybe there is something useful I am not seeing. Let me know if you may need anything else.

I also tried booting from a fresh Fedora LIVE USB, installing Powertop, performing auto-tune but still stuck at C2. I think by this point it as obviously something at really low level, like BIOS, or some hardware. But the problem being, I have only HDD inside, so...is it possible that some HDD, even pinned down, can prevent more efficient C state? It sound strange to me. Waiting for answers.

Done. I disabled the secondary controller and have all my 6 disks connected to the Intel Z87 SATA controller. No joy. Still stuck on C2 State. Waiting for any update. Tell me if I need to provide any sort of information, screenshot or anything. I'll do.

I have tried again, I honestly don't what other parameter to change in the BIOS... Already update to the latest. I even have the physical book. Just checked and yes, I have a USB2 stick inserted in a USB2 port. Checked it again, and I should have set everything. I have not seen an option in the BIOS to really "disable" PCIe slots, but something that ask if the speed I want is "auto" or "Gen1" or "Gen2", for now it is on auto. Not sure if this matter. The only thing I haven't done is to disable one SATA controller as I need the ports, so I am not really sure how would I do. I can maybe buy the SATA card you mentioned and if nothing change, just return it from Amazon. @Lolight Sorry for the late answer, but from the phone, for some reason, I was not able to post an answer. Now that's weekend I set here and did all the test you suggested. If you have any other idea, it would be welcome. I am also willing to take a picture of every page of the BIOS to post if this could help I really cannot get that damn C2 state.

Where? Software wise on Unraid or on the BIOS? Already done. Need to check those out, can't really remember. Under which section should I find those? Not sure. Need to check it. But in any case, I would need more than 6 ports. I am going to add 2 SSD so the total number of port needed will be 8. If that's may be the problem, can it be solved with some external PCI-e card with SATA ports? If so, do you have any suggestion of some good efficient ones? Thanks.

...Really no one that have any idea?

Hi, I have just built my first Unraid server and I am trying to make it as power efficient as I can given my current hardware. This was basically a 0 cost build as I already had everything, I just bought a PSU so I can't pretend much, but I am sure it can consume less looking at stats. My build it is as follow: CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K CPU MOBO: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VI EXTREME , Version Rev 1.xx RAM: 16(4x4) GiB DDR3 PSU: SF Series™ SF600 — 600 Watt 80 PLUS® Platinum Storage: 4 x WDC_WD3000FYYZ 2 x WDC_WD20EZRX (soon I will add 2 SATA SSD in RAID1 for cache) USB: SanDisk Cruzer_Force For the time being, I have not absolutely nothing connected as I wanted to minimized the search area for stuff that draw power, so: Nothing plugged on to the USB (except the boot stick, obviously) No PCI cards Using only iGPU All ports on the case are not connected Only 2 FANs in use Now, getting on my report, the power consumption I have observed: While it is in use/under load: Around 100W While in idle, with all the Disk spinned down and nothing on the server running (like VM, Docks, etc..): 60W While sure, they are not astronomically high numbers, I know it can do better, at least while in Idle. For now, I have tried adjusting all the settings I thought could do something in the BIOS. I then installed "powertop" on the server to watch for C states. But if you look at the pictures I have attached, the server only reach the C2 state. Following this guide, I have taken a look at the Tunables, and so a bunch of "Bad" stuff it can be optimized (take a look at the attachment), but I have no clue on what it is what and how something can affect stuff. The guide that I have linked showed that there is an auto-tune command, but can have drawbacks, especially for ASM Sata controller, which I am pretty sure I have. I saw there are lot of steps and manual things to do, but I would like some more guide on how to do stuff as I am pretty scared of fuck things up. Any help it is welcome, thanks. EDIT 1: Looking at CPU Frequency, while in idle, many threads still go for 3.5GHz and only few stay at 900MHz. It seems like there are some processes going on. EDIT 2: I have tried to follow the guide as it seems my ASM1062 controller should support power management. For the time being, I just given the command on console and not saved to file. The situation it is improved quite a lot. Now with disks spinned up (but idle) the server draw around 60-70W, while on Idle with all disks spinned down, it went as low as 35W. Good. But the C state it keeps remaining on C2 and now I really don't get it (look at the picture). All the Tunables are now in the "Good" state, except the "VM writeback timeout" (Picture uploaded). The CPU freq now correctly stay as low as 800 MHz (Picture uploaded). While checking this, the server as no video output connected and I was using SSH connection from my computer with no Web GUI open and all disks spinned down. What am I missing?