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I absolutely love Linode!

Yes. In fact, when I tested it with XBMC not running, it wouldn't show me any info (even though it does not pull it all from XBMC). Also, I did get it fully working on Unraid. I used the Unraid web package.

I'll change to using the us server url as my primary server. If I am getting bounced over to the Europe based servers that could explain some of the speed issues.

I've been putting off buying a switch for awhile. This thread convinced me to go ahead and purchase the 8-port Trendnet. Thanks guys.

Multiple sites, and the speed issues wouldn't have anything to do with that. Haven't had any problems until the last few months. As for completion, I'm not talking about the ones that Sabnzbd(on Unraid) fails to repair, I'm talking about ones that can't be repaired. This has been happening with several index sites. I've been using ssl.astraweb.com when maybe I should be using ssl-us.astraweb.com. They appear to resolve to different IP addresses. Any input on the server would be appreciated. Again, haven't had any issues until the last few months, but I'm starting to look for another provider.

I have the Astraweb $11 plan. Paying for it a year in advance would save me $36, but what if their service starts to go downhill? Then I'm stuck with them. While I have been with them for about a year already, I'm sticking to the $11 plan. Also, I have had some speed and completion issues over the last couple of months with Astraweb.

But is it repairing files or does it just need to less? I did have one nzb in the last week that was not repairable. Sabnzbd verified the download and found that it was not repairable. It looks like it verifies the files but if it finds out that it is repairable it just gives up instead of attempting it.

With the nature of apps like SickBeard and CP it certainly wouldn't surprise me but I have not run into the same issues and I have been running all 3 apps from boot continuously without any similar issues. But I have definitely gone 8 days without incident with the same amount of RAM. That being said I would bet money that both CP and SickBeard each have at least some memory leaks.

Hmmm...That should be plenty of RAM. How are you starting CouchPotato? I start it in my GO script like so... #SABnzbd installpkg /boot/packages/SABnzbdDependencies-2.0-i486-unRAID.tgz python /mnt/cache/.apps/SABnzbd-0.5.4/SABnzbd.py -d -s 192.168.1.112:4747 -f /boot/apps/SABnzbd-0.5.4/sabnzbd.ini #SickBeard nohup python /mnt/cache/.Sick-Beard/SickBeard.py > foo.out 2> foo.err < /dev/null & #CouchPotato python /mnt/cache/.CouchPotato/CouchPotato.py -d

How much memory do you have and what else, if anything, are you running?

I think Joe is right. Every time I have added a new hard disk to this motherboard I have had to fix the boot order.

I just open Finder and then Cmd+Shift+g to bring up the Go to Folder dialogue and then type something like this: /volumes/cache/.folder.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. That's actually what I meant, that it was preferable to use the scratch disk. Since I am using my Cache drive now I have to manually stop CP before I can stop the array. By switching it to a scratch disk this would no longer be an issue.

I have a Plus license with 1 parity drive, 2 data drives, and 1 cache drive. Everything that gets written to the cache drive gets moved over to the data drives nightly at 3:40 am. If you want to keep things from being moved you can put them in dot folders (like .folder). I keep my Sabnzbd install on the cache drive in a folder called .Sabnzbd.

Eventually, I would like to move everything to an outside "scratch" disk but until I get some more drives it's going to reside on my cache drive. I think that's the preferable way to do things and you won't have to worry about CouchPotato's logging keeping the Unraid array from stopping.

Yep. I run everything Sabnzbd related from my cache drive. Things like this will definitely kill flash drives.

I'm on Unraid 4.5.6 I intstalled this via Unmenu and set usblp0 as the Printer Port in Unmenu. I did not need to create any symlinks. Then I plugged in my circa 2004 HP Deskjet 5150. Then I created the directory that Dase had mentioned. It would not work until I did. mkdir /var/lock/subsys To setup the printer in on my Mac running 10.6 I did the following: Opened System Preferences, clicked Print and Fax, and then the + button at the bottom of the printer list. I then selected the IP tab, chose "HP Jetdirect - Socket" for protocol (I think you would do this regardless of the brand of your printer). Then for address I put the IP of my Unraid box followed by the port like so: 192.168.1.101:9001. Then I chose "Select Printer Software" from the Print Using: dropdown. I left the other fields blank. A boxed up, and I chose a driver closest to my printer, HP Deskjet 5400. Lo and behold, now I am printing wirelessly to Unraid. Also set this up on my wife's Windows 7 laptop following Dase's instructions. Worked without a hitch. If you are having trouble then check the syslog. If you see this: Oct 13 11:17:13 Tower p9100d[8361]: /var/lock/subsys/p9100d: No such file or directory Then you need to create the /var/lock/subsys directory. If you see anything that looks like the lines below then your client computer is sending the print job to Unraid. Oct 13 11:20:59 Tower p9100d[8675]: Connection from 192.168.1.139 port 50736 accepted Oct 13 11:21:06 Tower p9100d[8675]: Finished job: 0 bytes received, 0 bytes sent Oct 13 11:21:06 Tower p9100d[8675]: Connection from 192.168.1.139 port 50749 accepted Oct 13 11:22:05 Tower p9100d[8675]: Finished job: 10708 bytes received, 0 bytes sent

Checkout Synergy. It will let you use the mouse and keyboard of your Macbook to control your Windows HTPC. It's basically a virtual KVM. Check it out at http://synergy-foss.org/

I'll try to test it in the next few days. FWIW, I'm running the current version of Unraid. I just started using it though, so I haven't upgraded from a previous version.

That's what I am guessing. When I watch the download finish (refresh every second) in SABnzbd in never shows that it is trying to repair it, which it does in SABnzbd running on my Mac on the same files. So basically if a file needs repairing (which many on usenet do), you have to manually repair in via the command line. FWIW, I'm getting about 10% failure rate in unraid while on my Mac running the same version of SABnzbd it's less than 0.5% with the same usenet server.

Several have failed for me. However, I can run par2 from the console to successfully repair the download. Is SABnzbd not seeing par2?

Let me know if you have any more trouble. I'm happy to help. Also, how does everybody shut these sort of things off automatically when stopping the array?

Let me know if that works. If not, I'll post my go script.

That should be current then. It looks like you are running Python 2.6 but do the following on your unraid box to find out the exact version: python exit() will bring you back to the standard prompt. Mine says this: Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Jul 24 2010, 21:39:31) I did install Sabnzbd and Sickbeard first. Do you have the SABnzbdDependencies-2.0-i486-unRAID.tgz package installed?

Just bought a Asus M4A785T-M last week. I've really liked it so far.