GarrettC

Typing up a reply with all that I have found... oh yea.. your gonna love this LOL. Cliffnotes = bad drive(s) but not the new ones First I downgrade to 4.7 and BAM all the problems are gone... for a few minutes then the speeds start to act up again. So I telnet in and check the drive stats, MD2 has errored and so on. I run down to check it out and can smell HD Death, CRAP! Turns out issue #1 was a failing cache drive, temps didnt reflect it but she was in thermal meltdown! I think "Great" problems solved right? NOPE, im still on 4.7 at this point so I think maybe the files have been corrupted.. I load up 5.0b6 and things are great for a few minutes then go to crap again. WTF at this point im ready to light it up like the fireworks we'd been blowing up all night!!! So, I load up a fresh batch of 5.0b7 which for some reason completely pissed off the network and locked up the modem, oh yea we're havin fun now! I get everything reset and load the webui. Its fresh and no drives assigned at this point and baby SHE'S FLYIN. I begin testing each drive one by one to see which one slows the system down. I hit drive #4 (WD 2tb 2mos old) and it slows to a halt. I'm able to load all drives but that one and the box is better than its ever been. I'm seeing write speeds of 80MB/s and read speeds of over 120MB/s, this is without a cache drive too. Never seen a system move this fast. I guess it didnt like being messed with the first time around, when the drives came back up it was not a happy camper. Now I need to see if the WD is bad or if its just got a few misplaced files with errors?

lol yea we just finished bbq'ing and blowing up a years salary in fireworks (seems like it ) I removed the controller card and 2 new drives but still suffered terrible performance. I'm gauging the speed on how the gui loads and the generic report as windows is moving the files.

NIC statistics: rx_packets: 10787 tx_packets: 517 rx_bytes: 967918 tx_bytes: 51600 rx_broadcast: 8640 tx_broadcast: 42 rx_multicast: 1627 tx_multicast: 0 rx_errors: 0 tx_errors: 0 tx_dropped: 0 multicast: 1627 collisions: 0 rx_length_errors: 0 rx_over_errors: 0 rx_crc_errors: 0 rx_frame_errors: 0 rx_no_buffer_count: 0 rx_missed_errors: 0 tx_aborted_errors: 0 tx_carrier_errors: 0 tx_fifo_errors: 0 tx_heartbeat_errors: 0 tx_window_errors: 0 tx_abort_late_coll: 0 tx_deferred_ok: 0 tx_single_coll_ok: 0 tx_multi_coll_ok: 0 tx_timeout_count: 0 tx_restart_queue: 0 rx_long_length_errors: 0 rx_short_length_errors: 0 rx_align_errors: 0 tx_tcp_seg_good: 0 tx_tcp_seg_failed: 0 rx_flow_control_xon: 0 rx_flow_control_xoff: 0 tx_flow_control_xon: 0 tx_flow_control_xoff: 0 rx_long_byte_count: 967918 rx_csum_offload_good: 10727 rx_csum_offload_errors: 0 rx_header_split: 0 alloc_rx_buff_failed: 0 tx_smbus: 0 rx_smbus: 0 dropped_smbus: 0 rx_dma_failed: 0 tx_dma_failed: 0

Same flash drive as before, just loaded the 2 upgrade files then eventually reloaded the whole thing. Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on MDI-X: on Supports Wake-on: pumbag Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000001 (1) Link detected: yes

Whats weird is that everything was great up until the beta7 install. Write speeds were 30+, Read speeds were 80-120. This was without a cache drive also... im thinking about going back to an older version just to see whats going on.

Lastnight I received 2 new hitachi drives and installed into my unraid machine, while I'm there I upgrade to the latest beta. Copied specified files (twice) but the system wouldn't boot. formatted and copied all new beta files to the flash drive, now the system boots and functions somewhat.. It takes literally 10-15 seconds for each page to load in the web gui, every function you try to do takes forever. (ie; changing settings, adding drives, spinning up drives... anything) I did change the local master setting to YES but no change. Write speeds are less than 1MB/s if it even goes at all, sometimes it will stop all together at which point the web gui will time out. Read speeds are anywhere from 400KB/s to 80MB/s, its all over the place. I've tried reloading the os several times with the same result. Have also reverted back to the original setup (before adding drives) but running the updated beta, same result. I didnt make a backup of the previous OS so I can't get it back to what was working. I've attached the syslog but its huge (was bringing drives off/on line at the time sorry). System specs: Asus P5KPL-CM Intel E7400 cpu OCZ 4gb DDR-400 Intel gig ethernet pci-e (2) WD2001FASS 2tb (2) Samsung HD204 2tb (2) Hitachi HDS 2tb Cat6 to gigabit switches syslog_unraid5.0b7.txt

Tagging along for some answers... I'm having the same issue. 80+ read / 3 +/- write (with or without a cache drive)

I setup the unRAID server, Backup server and all desktop systems in the HVAC room in the basement. It stays mostly dust free and temp is an average 68 degree's. Its nice having all the systems in one location, makes upgrades and maintenance a breeze. Each of the desktop systems connect to a gigabit switch w/fiber uplink to 2 other gigabit switches in the house. Each TV in the house is used as a monitor and has a usb/video to cat6 converter to the desktops in the server room. Its nice only having a keyboard/mouse/monitor(tv) in each room. No noise... no bulky mess. If anyone needs a dvd-rom it just simply plugs in to the usb, use it then store it away. The theater room is just on the other side of the server room wall with sound deadning material between them. Basicly all thats seen in the theater room is the face of the HTPC thats flush with the wall itself.

Bingo, you nailed it! Found 10 corruptions on disk3 that have been corrected. System is back up 100% now. Thanks for the help!

Noticed this in SysLog Anyone have any idea's as to whats causing this? All drives have at lease 500gb remaining. System has 2gb memory If I stop the array and restart it, that works for a while but eventually does it again. Now its to the point where that doesnt work anymore... I can't write anything to the unRaid server. Dec 22 02:19:04 storage emhttp: Restart CIFS... Dec 22 02:19:04 storage emhttp: shcmd (114): killall -HUP smbd Dec 22 02:19:04 storage emhttp: shcmd (115): /usr/local/emhttp/emhttp_event svcs_restarted Dec 22 02:19:04 storage emhttp_event: svcs_restarted Dec 22 02:24:47 storage shfs: shfs_ftruncate: ftruncate: (5) Input/output error Dec 22 02:24:47 storage shfs: shfs_write: write: (12) Cannot allocate memory Dec 22 02:24:47 storage last message repeated 4 times Dec 22 02:24:47 storage kernel: REISERFS error (device md3): reiserfs-2025 reiserfs_cache_bitmap_metadata: bitmap block 65568768 is corrupted: first bit must be 1 Dec 22 02:24:47 storage kernel: REISERFS (device md3): Remounting filesystem read-only Dec 22 02:24:47 storage shfs: shfs_write: write: (12) Cannot allocate memory Dec 22 02:24:47 storage last message repeated 3 times Dec 22 02:25:01 storage shfs: shfs_ftruncate: ftruncate: (12) Cannot allocate memory Dec 22 02:25:01 storage shfs: shfs_write: write: (12) Cannot allocate memory Dec 22 02:25:01 storage last message repeated 8 times Dec 22 02:25:24 storage shfs: shfs_utimens: utimes: /mnt/disk3/Movies/*****/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB (30) Read-only file system Dec 22 02:25:24 storage shfs: shfs_unlink: unlink: /mnt/disk3/Movies/*******/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB (30) Read-only file system Dec 22 02:25:24 storage shfs: shfs_create: open: /mnt/disk3/Movies/******/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_2.VOB (30) Read-only file system Dec 22 02:25:24 storage last message repeated 3 times Dec 22 02:25:30 storage shfs: shfs_create: open: /mnt/disk3/Movies/******/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_3.VOB (30) Read-only file system

Wierd problem that just popped up today, has happened twice now. As im moving files to the server it will intermittantly loose perimissions to the shared folders, seems to happen after about 2tb are moved. I have to stop the array then restart it, after that its fine for a while then locks down again. I haven't had it running long enough to see if its a time thing or it just doesnt like being bombarded with files.