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Hey guys. I have a lifetime "Basic" license. Got the following e-mail: Hello there, We’re reaching out to let you know that the price to upgrade your Basic or Plus license will be increasing on June 2nd, 2025 (in 2 weeks). Basic ➡️ Plus will increase by $30. Basic ➡️ Pro & Plus ➡️ Pro will increase by $40. Don’t worry—you’ll still save over $50 compared to buying our comparable Lifetime license at full price, while Unraid Plus remains an accessible intermediate option with support for up to 12 devices. So i am a little bit confused about this. Does this mean my lifetime Basic is no lifetime anymore or just a friendly reminder that an price increase will happen? Will i get major 8, 9, ... (lifetime) updates with my "Basic" or will Limetech just change the name in the fututre to get rid of old lifetime licenses? thx

Figured out whats going on. I had the following in my /boot/config/go file: # enable IEEE 802.3az (Energy Efficient Ethernet): Could be incompatible to LACP bonds and break SSH daemon! for i in /sys/class/net/eth?; do dev=$(basename $i); [[ $(echo $(ethtool --show-eee $dev 2> /dev/null) | grep -c "Supported EEE link modes: 1") -eq 1 ]] && ethtool --set-eee $dev eee on; done This restarted the NIC and brougth it down/up during boot, which affected sshd. After comment it out, it works now (tried 3 reboots and sshd was running). Disabling EEE did not hurt idle power consumption which is basically the same with or without.

I also have this during boot: Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung. Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung. Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit=667ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 Antwort von 192.168.0.5: Bytes=32 Zeit<1ms TTL=64 So network is working short after boot ping is stable and than two drop outs and ping is back. I think there the sshd is killed and not restarted. Shouldn't it be restarted?

Hi guys. I have an issue on unraid 7.1.0-beta3 that sshd is not running after boot, everything else works. Starting it manually works. I think the issue arrived after adding an I226-V NIC (instead of using the integratet I219-V). Here is a similar thread with some suggestions: syslog.txt I also have "carrier lost" in the syslog. Bonding and bridging is disabled. I have not installed the plugin "Tips and Tweaks", so icant uninstall it. Please find attached the syslog. thx pOpY

Guys, i have found a settings combination which is stable for my setup and saves another ~5 Watt. I am down to ~15.8 Watt (avg on idle) now with the I226-V and an stable 2,5 GBE speed. With no montior, disks spun down, not accessing webgui, nvme cache running. Tests performed with iperf3 and large SMB file copy to cache. On all tests it has a stable 2,5 GBE connection with no speed issues. The key was to enable "PEG ASPM" again, set the max cstate in the BIOS to C10 (this disables ASPM Control in BIOS completely). Than enable "Native ASPM" in BIOS, this gives ASPM control to linux and you can enable/disable ASPM per device basis. Now you can find the pcie bus address of your ethernet adapter with the command: lspci -vv | awk '/ASPM/{print $0}' RS= | grep --color -P '(^[a-z0-9:.]+|ASPM )' In my case it's 01:00.0. Look in /sys/bus/pci/devices/ directory for a similar sounding directory, it's 0000:01:00 in my case. do an: ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/link/ In there are the available ASPM modes, in my case it's just one file named: l1_aspm You can now manually disable/enable a ASPM mode for a particular device by writing into this file: Enable ASPM: echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/link/l1_aspm Disable ASPM: echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/link/l1_aspm After writing to this file, check your changes by the lspci command from above. It should say "disabled" for this particular device (in my case also for the PCIe controller because my NIC card depends on it). Here is the output after i disabled ASPM for just the I226-V NIC: root@MediaServer:~# lspci -vv | awk '/ASPM/{print $0}' RS= | grep --color -P '(^[a-z0-9:.]+|ASPM )' 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 12th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller #1 (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #2, Speed 16GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L1 <16us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, LnkDisable- CommClk+ 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-S PCH PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #1, Speed 8GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <1us, L1 <4us LnkCtl: ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, LnkDisable- CommClk- 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-S PCH PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev 11) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #5, Speed 8GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L1 <64us LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, LnkDisable- CommClk+ 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I226-V (rev 04) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L1 <4us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, LnkDisable- CommClk+ 03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller 980 (DRAM-less) (prog-if 02 [NVM Express]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L1 <64us LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, LnkDisable- CommClk+ root@MediaServer:~# As a bonus, if you want to have it persitent (after boot) add the following to your /boot/config/go file: # disable ASPM for I226-V, when this is enabled the network speed drops often to <300 MB/s (instead of full performance of 2500 MB/s) # with this workaround the system can reaches at least c-state c3 (~15,8 Watt) and have full ethernet performance echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:01:00.0/link/l1_aspm Here are my powertop stats: Pkg(HW) | Core(HW) | CPU(OS) 0 CPU(OS) 1 | | C0 active 0.7% 6.6% | | POLL 0.0% 0.1 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms | | C1E 2.0% 0.2 ms 3.6% 0.1 ms C2 (pc2) 5.3% | | C3 (pc3) 47.0% | C3 (cc3) 0.0% | C6 (pc6) 0.0% | C6 (cc6) 6.5% | C6 4.3% 0.9 ms 9.1% 0.9 ms C7 (pc7) 0.0% | C7 (cc7) 64.8% | C8 (pc8) 0.0% | | C8 1.0% 0.9 ms 0.9% 0.9 ms C9 (pc9) 0.0% | | C10 (pc10) 0.0% | | I am happy with the result. Hope this helps someone. pOpY

What tells lspci about aspm of the card? try the command and look for your card: In my case with an I226-V card on an GigaByte H610i Board i had to disable "ASPM PEG" in BIOS to get it stable @ 2,5 GBE. Also the I226-T1 i cant get stable. Test you NIC performance with iperf3 (docker) and another pc in the same network. So you exclude any other possible bottleneck (hdd's, cache, ... othe ASPM related things).

Hey guys, me again. Was rocking my H610i system with onboard i219V 1GBE controller + picoPSU @ ~14 watt idle. Now that managed 2,5GBE switches on aliexpress are cheap as hell, i have ordered 4x + an pcie I226-V card. Back a few months i was trying a I226-T1 which was horrible back than. I sufferd from the ASPM issue so that the link was down short after it was booted. Now that kernel 6.12 is used in unraid 7.1.0-beta 2 i was giving it a try. Read on the kernel github issues that there was some work regarding freezing in the igc driver. First it looked good with the pcie I226-V card, but after deeper performance tests, i had an issue with speed. iperf3 ran great a few runs (~2,37 GBE/s) but than i just dropped to under 100 MBIT/s. Also coping files to the cache (nvme) over SMB dropped from stable 1 GBE with the i219v to sometimes stalling during copy! So i digged deeper and after hours of tests (with other clients), BIOS restore defaults and powertop + BIOS setting hunting i found the issue. When "PEG ASMP" in BIOS is on, the speed issue is here (but it reaches pkg pwr C6, with aspm enabled on the i226-V). With this turned OFF, the speed issue is gone (but package pwr doesnt even reach C1 and also ASPM is disabled for the i226-V). Here is the lspci output when the issue is gone: Sadly, because the pkg power reaches no higher cstates, my power consumption is up to ~22 Watt. After some googling about "PEG ASPM" it turned out that this blog about a low power NAS is mentioning it to leave it enabled: https://mattgadient.com/7-watts-idle-on-intel-12th-13th-gen-the-foundation-for-building-a-low-power-server-nas/ If i leave it enabled, i can go back to the stable onboard i219V anyways @ all here Anyone with an I226-V and similar issues? Maybe it's because an cheap one from aliexpress. Any news on the realtek 8125b and cstates? Last time i tested and stated above by @mgutt i also dont know the current state. @mgutt Which 2,5 GBE card do you rocking now? Is it worth to try a genuineIntel I226-T1 again? Thank you pOpY

@Robbaz thx, that recommendations and a bios upgrade had helped also with an intel i226-v

Yeah, the answer was expected -> THEY DONT CARE! I have answered them, that the issue also is in windows (not checked by me). But an reddit user says so.

Got an rather "standard" answer from GIGABYTE today: We will see....

Sadly, no reaction. So i assume you got an answer? What are they recommending? (Contact intel)?

@ShadowbladeI also tested the 8125B card back a few months and was also stucked in C3. Without it my system reaches C8. Also in my case the power consumption was higher at some point after unraid updates. So I dropped the card and tested the Intel i226v, which was worse with total freezes of the system. I think the new unraid 7.1.0-beta1 with it's new kernel 6.12 could breath some new life in my 2,5 GBE upgrade project 😁 So what you are running now? 2,5 GBE card? Which one? How's your power consumption and c states? Thx

Hey guys, i also had the issue back than in this thread what with an Intel I226T1BLK card system freezed at some point with older unraid 6 & v7. Now that Unraid OS 7.1.0-beta.1 (with kernel 6.12.19-Unraid x86_64) is released, can anyone of you retest if the issue is gone and PM now working with the intel cards? Ps.: In the mean time, is there any other 2,5 GBE card (except realtek 8125B chipset and intel I225 or I226) with low power consumption and where we can reach higher c-states? thx

@JorgeBthx for the hint! Updated to 7.1-beta.1 (which has kernel: Linux 6.12.19-Unraid x86_64) and issue is still there.

I have reported the issue to kernel bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219904

thx for confirming the same issue with ubuntu. Sadly, i dont know how to report issues with the linux kernel. Here is the kernel bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ I will open an issue there.

thx, for confirming, that is really strange! So our affected boards are: Asus PRIME B760M-A D4-CSM Gigabyte H610I ASRock B660 So affected chipsets seems gen 6 & 7. @Masterwishx can you try the beep command in an current "Ubuntu 24.04 LTS" live (booted from USB). I can test it in a few days. If it also doesnt work there, we have a better chance that Asus, Gigabyte or ASRock support can reproduce the issue and maybe find a solution. They have better connections to Intel than we have

Guys, I found this: Seems chipset related! I'll tried putting my system to sleep and you know what, the buzzer is working as expected after wakeup. @Masterwishx can you please also try this? Here is the command: echo -n mem > /sys/power/state I don't know how to fix that without putting the system to sleep. Any ideas?

Yes i'll tried that already but once again. It makes 10 clicks (one every time the tone starts playing and one if it stops). It seems that the PWM (square modulation frequency) is not started/set correctly. Any ideas how we can do some tests? Does the pcspkr module has some sysfs files exported?

I also tried various frequencys and lengths, without success. Just a really silent click on the start of issuing the beep commands. P.s: I also swapped the Mainboard from an intel i3 5gen to an 12 gen lately. It's an Gigabyte H610I board. Before it was working, with the same unraid setup. Could maybe some powertop tweaks causing this issue?

Thanks for checking that the kernel had this module built in. Also for me, the beeper works in the BIOS. 1x post beep when monitor is connected and 5x it's not connected. All as usual. Just in unraid it just makes a single silent "click" on beep commands. I can try it in Ubuntu live to check if it's working there.

Yeah it's weird that it works on some hardware and on some not. Already tried to find an compiled module for our kernel version but did'nt found one. So compiling is the only option. @limetech can you please help here?

I didnt found an kernel issue for this. But you find many psots with the same issue on modern kernels. Seemed that some distros doesnt compile pcspkr module, which is also blacklisted. Here is a guy with the same issue on slackware (unraid is based on slackware): https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/pc-speaker-motherboard-pcspkr-not-working-after-compiling-in-out-of-tree-module-4175740212/ It seems also in unraid 7 this module is missing: root@MediaServer:~# lsmod | grep pcspkr root@MediaServer:~# root@MediaServer:~# insmod pcspkr insmod: ERROR: could not load module pcspkr: No such file or directory root@MediaServer:~# We have the needed input device: root@MediaServer:~# ls -l /dev/input/by-path/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 13 07:13 pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:6:1.0-event-kbd -> ../event1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 13 07:13 pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:6:1.1-event -> ../event3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 13 07:13 pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:6:1.1-event-mouse -> ../event2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 13 07:13 pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:6:1.1-mouse -> ../mouse0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 13 07:13 platform-pcspkr-event-spkr -> ../event0 root@MediaServer:~# Maybe @limetech can look into this and include this module maybe in an beta or as a seperate download to test?

thx for the hint to zfs (ARC & ARCL2). Was hoping that there is an plugin which can a real cache to any file system array, but sadly it seems there is no such plugin. Dont want to use zfs for just 1x nvme + 2x hdds. Nor i need the other features like snapshots...

High guys, using Unraid now for half a year and was before on Windows with a software called PrimoCache: https://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/index.html This was excellent for configuring your read and write cache SSD. It also used RAM for the cache and you could set read / write cache sizes. A neat feature was something like "predicted" read cache. So new files would go on the cache, would be written to HDD after a defered time BUT would remain on the cache. Also it loads much accessed data from the HDD into the cache if you access it. This has boosted the accesstime, read & write speed's to my NAS significantly! It also showed a statistic with an cache "hit rate", so a percentage how it predicted the files being used (from cache or not). The percentage was arround ~70% in my use case. Currently i have setup unraid share with an cache as primary storage, hdds/array as secondary with high-water and mover action "Cache -> Array". As documented, new files get's written to the fast cache and move on schedule to the array. Is there a similar functionallity in unraid like PrimoCache does (a smart cache)? Can the cache in unraid set to leave last written files also on cache and just copy (backup) it to the array and not move them? Sorry if this was already answered, but i am not so deep in the unraid caching mechanism.