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Looking at your stats, I'm guessing your client is running an SSD? What cache drive do you have? The speeds are quite good.

What does 150% on the SF graph represent? Is it ~100% per core? Does that mean a quad core with all four cores at full load would read 400%? Sorry, just like to clarify.

I found using v5.0's 'cache only' option does the job very nicely, so i'm, not using . or _ folders anymore. It wasnt clear to me that using . or _ was obsolete. Still, *any* folder on the cachedisk, be it a 'cache only' or a cached user share, shows an orange ball if there is any data in them. E.g. i 've installed apps like slimserver and sabnzb and dropbox to a 'cache only' folder named 'Apps' on the cache disk. The user share 'Apps' that shows up in the shares tab, has an orange ball stating 'share has pending cache'. Offcourse i can not delete the folders on the data disk, nor the above 'Apps' folder, that would delete my data and installed apps, so i'm not sure what you mean by that. E.g. my 'movies' folder is on disk1, 2,3 and 4, using a split level. The user share which refers to this is 'cached : yes'. Surely you don't expect me to delete all occurances of the 'movies' folder on all data disks? I run 5.0 and I setup a cache only share about a week ago for mysql+xbmc. All I did was ssh in and create the folder /mnt/cache/.mysql & it worked a treat. Mover ignores it.

That's a good sign. Looks like we might see an rc7 soon, or will rc7 likely be a rename of -8168-test2 in the hopes for a -final?

I have a cache drive but as heffneil noted, when copying between disk shares the cache drive isn't used. My regular copy speeds are more like 90MB/Sec. If i copy data from my PC directly to a disk share I usually see around 30-35MB/Sec, which is data being written directly to the array.

15MB/Sec sounds painfully slow.. I get 30-35MB/Sec copying through Windows via disk shares.

It's funny, when I was running 4.7 I had a lot of dropped TX packets, no RX. After replacing a bad cable most went away but a few remained. I updated to RC6-test-8168 and now I only get dropped RX packets. I hadn't considered disconnecting my unRAID box from the router, this actually makes sense considering how few packets I'm seeing. The amount of data being copied no longer seems to significantly affect the [dropped] packet count but the number slowly rises. Will test and post results. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm trying to diagnose a very similar problem atm. A very small number of dropped packets, just enough to annoy me. I swear I can feel the pauses as well though that could be unrelated. I'll get <10 dropped packets for ~5gb of data copied (on average) so it certainly isn't a lot. The server and two boxes I copy from all have brand new cat6e cables, not self terminated. I do have two TP-Link 8prt Gigabit switches and I wonder if it is time to upgrade to something managed to make diagnosing easier. I've just ordered a new Intel Pro/1000 PCI network card to replace the onboard Realtek as I've had just about enough of that NIC. Running unRAID "5.0rc6-8168-test" at present, the issues existed with 4.7 so I am suspecting it is hardware related.

XBMC for living room, what I plan to use everywhere eventually. Office & bedroom currently use WDTV Live Plus though I believe they have been replaced by a newer model.

1 & 2. Best bet is to email Tom for these two questions, [email protected] - http://lime-technology.com/company/contact 3. Yes, many users have had to do this due to flash drives becoming damaged, failing etc. The process is basically to e-mail limetech with your new GUID and they will email you a new key file. 4. I'm not sure what you mean by clear description but unRAID is based on ReiserFS, yes. Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS

Is MC any faster than just moving in Windows via disk shares? E.g. Move data from \\tower\disk1\TV to \\tower\disk7\TV (assuming both disk1 & disk7 belong to the "TV" share).

Upgraded from 4.7 to RC6 yesterday, everything went very smoothly. Parity check was OK, started at ~105MB/Sec and finished at ~60MB/Sec, took about 6.5hrs. I was hoping this would fix some dropped packet issues I was having with 4.7 but alas, the issues remain. Doesn't seem to affect anything as they are quite few and far between.

This is actually a very valid point. There are some significant changes between RC5 & RC6, including reverting back to a newer kernel.

If you are going to do a console tail, use PuTTY so you don't lose the log. It may not give you enough information anyway.. your testing is quite thorough though, I would be curious to see if anyone else can replicate this fault.

Offtopic a bit as well but Johnm; do you use any sort of CRC/MD5/SHA-1 verification when copying files to/from your server? This is something else I've been thinking of doing. For now I'm using Teracopy w/ auto verify and that seems to work OK. Obviously monthly parity checks are also still required :-)

This could still be a permissions issue but I don't know much about the plugin sorry. Does the plugin writer offer a way to easily reinstall without losing your config? + Can you post a syslog?

Sorry I had a quick brainfart and took the easy road.. probably best to set those to 754 and see if it still works. Should be a little more secure. Just repeat the same process for both files only replacing the digits, if it doesn't work when you set them to 754 just set it back to 777.

Try: chmod 777 /mnt/user/Movies/YAMJ/My_YAMJ.sh Then re-run yamj-rescan and see what happens. Edit: You will also likely need to do the same for MovieJukebox.sh: chmod 777 /mnt/user/Movies/YAMJ/MovieJukebox.sh

Can you please post the output of: ls -la /mnt/user/Movies/YAMJ

+1 (after all, check my sig!) - the newer socket 1155 replacement for an i3-540 would be an i3-2100/2120 If you can't stretch for an i3, an AthlonII would be my next choice. Any of the "e" series AthlonII's are an awesome alternative, they're just super hard to find and usually a little more expensive than the base chips but use a lot less power (X2-240e, 245e, 250e etc).

I swear that wasn't there before...

An AMD APU has a dedicated GPU on the chip and will only add to your initial cost, power bill & heat without providing any gain at all. It's a great chip for a MediaPC as the onboard gfx are powerful enough for 1080p/bluray content and a good replacement for a dedicated graphics card. For an unRAID server however, these are features that likely won't be used unless you plan on the server doing some sort of transcoding (such as Plex). The APU (CPU) you have selected will work fine though I would recommend something like the following, keep in mind although these are both AMD setups there is a socket change: AMD AthlonII X2-250 (AM3 Socket) $49.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103904 Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P (AM3 Socket) $59.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128504&Tpk=GA-78LMT-S2P NB: Above motherboard is based on the Realtek 8111E LAN so you would need to use a newer version of unRAID v5

Can you please rename the thread to (solved). If the issue creeps back up you can reopen it, good to hear a newer RC fixed the issue

It would also be worth running a manufacturer test on the drive. Either of the following should be fine: WD Data Lifeguard http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=608〈=en Seatools (Seagate utility also works for WD drives) http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Sometimes a drive suspected of being faulty but it still passes SMART & manufacturer tests just fine. If this is the case, try a benchmark tool (something like HDTune) and you can often tell by large dips in r/w performance that a drive is on it's way out- even if it hasn't quite failed just yet.

If you can get network working with your Windows booting from the striped set it might be worth cutting your losses and backing up as much as you want to save across to another PC. Assuming you have ~750GB of free space somewhere else. This way you can destroy the array and rebuild/replace what you need to without the concern for data loss.