KeithLM

I have added 10Gbe cards to my Windows desktop and my Unraid server and connected them directly to one another. Transferring to the server works pretty good, although I think it should be faster. It tends to stay in the 500MB/s range. That's going to a NVMe drive that supports upwards of 3200MB/s, also I have 64GB of ram and an i7, so there's no bottleneck there. Copying from the array is very slow though. I realize that's probably hitting the drives, but I've used iperf3 and there's definitely a problem. [ 5][TX-C] 0.00-1.00 sec 1.08 GBytes 9.30 Gbits/sec 0 3.97 MBytes [ 7][RX-C] 0.00-1.00 sec 19.8 KBytes 162 Kbits/sec [ 5][TX-C] 1.00-2.00 sec 1.08 GBytes 9.31 Gbits/sec 0 3.97 MBytes [ 7][RX-C] 1.00-2.00 sec 11.3 KBytes 92.7 Kbits/sec [ 5][TX-C] 2.00-3.00 sec 1.09 GBytes 9.34 Gbits/sec 0 3.97 MBytes [ 7][RX-C] 2.00-3.00 sec 21.2 KBytes 174 Kbits/sec [ 5][TX-C] 3.00-4.00 sec 1.05 GBytes 9.05 Gbits/sec 0 3.97 MBytes At times I can't even get the bidirectional test to run, and I've had issues connecting them. For a while I couldn't even get a traceroute to run from the server to the desktop, although the desktop works fine. Now the traceroute is showing the single hop and it's 0.2ms. Disabling the firewall on the windows box has seemed to help that. Both computers have 2.5gbps cards also that are on the main network, and they are on different subnets (192.168.0 for the 2.5, 10.0.0 for the 10Gbe).

I installed this a few months back and now it doesn't work. I'm getting similar errors to other people. It seems that something has changed in the configuration with some update and I don't know how to set it. When I went in Network Type was set to None but the instructions say to set it to Bridge. With none set it will start but it has no IP and I can't get to the web UI. With it set to Bridge and having a static IP that used to work just fine I get this: Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp4 0.0.0.0:80: bind: address already in use. Should I be using br0? Should it be something else? Is there a way to figure out what I should use?

10gbps is kind of expensive for my needs. I'm getting double the throughput for a relatively small investment, and I'm just hoping to get another 20% or so that I seem to be missing without having to dump a bunch of cash on it.

I currently have a RTL8125 card and am running 6.10rc4 and I'm just not seeing the speeds I should out of it. It seems to be running closer to 2gbps. I've read the default linux drivers just aren't that good for it. Anybody have a recommendation for a 2.5Gbe card that will allow me to max it out? Or is there some way to change the drivers Unraid is using?

Thank you. That appears to be the cause of the problem. I don't know when that got turned on and just never thought much of it.

I removed that line and changed the size and rebooted and no change. I also moved libvirt back from /mnt/user/ to /mnt/disk4. Also the Dashboard page is no longer laid out correct and there's a warning that says "natcasesort() expects parameter 1 to be array, bool given in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/DashboardApps.php on line 70". All the stuff on the right is down below the stuff on the left. If I try to select that warning so I can copy it the screen changes layout. What fun.

Anybody have any suggestions? I just want to run a single Linux VM. I have no opinions on any of these settings and will put anything that is recommended there. I have changing all three paths to /mnt/user and I've rebooted multiple times.

queeg-diagnostics-20200201-1757.zip

I recently removed some disks and added some new ones and moved stuff around. In the process I borked my one VM I had running and decided to start fresh. I've gone into the VM Manager and changed the storage locations multiple times now, and I get it to start and there's no indication of any problems. I've set libvirt storage to locations under /mnt/user/system and to a physical drive, /mnt/disk4/system and it creates it in either place, but no matter how many times I enable/disable VMs and delete that image and have it recreated when I go to the VMs page I just get that wavy graphic and there's nothing I can do there. Is there some way to do a reinstall of the VM manager or is there some VM manager plugin I should install?

OK, thanks for the info. For my usage cache isn't needed for the virtual drive, and it'd fill up my cache anyways. So I changed that setting and it's working as expected now. I added the virtual drive a year ago and hadn't noticed it consuming all the drive, but some of it was always there. One of the good things about unRAID is that for the most part I just leave it be and everything is fine and I don't even think about it for months. One of the bad things about unRAID is that since I go so long without dealing with it I forget about some of the features and settings and how I configured them.

I don't recall that option. I know I specified "yes" and "no" on some, but where did "prefer" come from? This domains share, something I don't recall creating myself, was set to "prefer".

My cache has been running hot, I was thinking of swapping it with another drive, or using a different SSD as the main cache, and when I activated the mover it quickly started filling up the cache drive. I went from having 35GB or thereabouts on the cache to having over 300GB! This is kind of the opposite of what I wanted to have happen. It seems to be copying a virtual disk I use as a secondary drive for my virtual machine from disk7 to the cache, and that can't possibly fit on there. I can't see why it should want to do that.

Anybody have any idea what I can do to get this working again? Everything was fine, then it's not. It doesn't make sense to me. I set up this VM a long, long time ago, and I don't recall doing anything special. I just wanted an Ubuntu VM and it just worked. Now it can't reach the network at all. I've rebooted the Unraid box multiple times, I've restarted the VM, nothing, always the same, it seems that it can't establish its network connection. I connected via VNC and hit enter so I entered emergency mode, ran ifconfig eth0 up and it brought up that device, but without an ip4 address. Without network access it can't mount any shares and I can't run my HDHomeRun DVR, it's totally useless to me. I also can't copy off any of my configuration files or do anything to recover the stuff I have on this VM so if I made another VM I'd be starting from scratch. All this because the Unraid server was shutdown badly. this doesn't make sense. My docker containers are fine, but not this VM.

br0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.201 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether d0:50:99:34:05:47 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 16230 bytes 2137660 (2.0 MiB) RX errors 0 dropped 24 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 12057 bytes 1678291 (1.6 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 docker0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 172.17.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 0.0.0.0 ether 02:42:0f:ea:80:da txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) RX packets 5095 bytes 358638 (350.2 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 4426 bytes 371064 (362.3 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 eth0: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether d0:50:99:34:05:47 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 38993 bytes 6748821 (6.4 MiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 26461 bytes 7369329 (7.0 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 20 memory 0xf7f00000-f7f20000 lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback) RX packets 1577 bytes 116690 (113.9 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 1577 bytes 116690 (113.9 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 veth420bc5d: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 02:17:16:5b:b1:0b txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) RX packets 5095 bytes 429968 (419.8 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 4426 bytes 371064 (362.3 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 veth7d38cca: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 86:35:76:86:99:97 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 231 bytes 74967 (73.2 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.122.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.122.255 ether 52:54:00:6f:d9:26 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 vnet0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether fe:54:00:6d:3e:e6 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 257 bytes 34152 (33.3 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 9306 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 Here's the ifconfig results after logging into the unraid server.

I had a power outage overnight and my server rebooted. I don't know what happens but now it seems as if my VM running ubuntu can't see the network. I was getting a message on the VMs page about going into Network Settings and set up a bridge. I don't understand why this is needed now. This has been running for years without a problem and I rebooted over the weekend and there haven't been recent updates so there's no reason any of these settings would have changed. So right now when I connect via the VNC remote option and look at what the Ubuntu startup shows it's giving me errors on mounting all remote file systems and some other services then I can get into a command line and when I run ifconfig I see only lo, no eth0 or anything else. So what kind of hoops do I need to jump through to get this VM to see the network adapter again?

Well it turns out this wasn't a complete success. While my shares all came back, as well as my dockers, I've lost my VM. I had Ubuntu installed on one VM, not sure which of the two VM managers I used, I have two showing up in the main menu. Any ideas how to recover that?

I see what you are saying, I guess what I'm doing isn't really the norm. I was fortunate with my failure in that I was dealing with a drive that had yet to be used. This is what threw me though: First line sounds scary, second line sounds fine. By saying "fresh new server" I felt like it was going to reset everything back to defaults. I had actually seen this fix recommended in my searching, but I just wasn't willing to go that route without confirmation that wasn't going to end up with a "fresh new server" which I expect to be empty. Thanks for the help. I have my array redefined and am rebuilding parity.

Cool thanks. Seems like they should change the wording on that. Alter, restore, recover, change, anything but new.

Is that going to screw up any of my shares or dockers or anything that? "New Config" sounds all encompassing and I don't want to go down a path that will screw everything up.

I have a drive that is failing, and currently it is not even being used to store anything so its failure is not a problem. But I can't figure out how to remove it. Because there's a drive failure apparently there is no parity taking place either, which really bothers me. My array is now unprotected, and I don't even see the option to run a parity check. So is there some way to remove this drive altogether since its existence in the array is inconsequential? This is disk 7, and I have 7 disks plus the parity drive and cache drive. When I stop the array I look at my array devices and it says no device on Disk 7. So I'd just like to delete it, but there doesn't seem to be an option for that.

Well it's working. Mostly, but as good as I can ask for I think. I first mounted the private folder where I always have it on every system I use. Then I rebooted and it was connected just fine. So then I went and mounted the public share. I rebooted, and it gave me an error message that not all drives had been reconnected. But as soon as I clicked on the private share it came up just fine and the public one looked fine too. So I may have to contend with an annoying message on restarts, but that is all. Now if I can only remember this next time. At least that thread you linked to thoroughly explained the issue so since I now understand what is happening between Windows and Linux I'll likely remember what to do. Big thanks for the help. Saved me hours of frustrating with the new PC.

Oh wow, thank you. I think that does cover it. See whenever I'm setting up a new system I typically go to a public share on my server called Public to get hold of some files I have there, config stuff, certain apps, etc., and start off with those. I'm pretty sure I did run "net use * /delete", multiple times I'm sure, but something somewhere was sticking around that shouldn't have been. I did return that laptop and exchange it, so I'll give the new laptop a new name and go straight to the private share when I first access the server.

Hmm, I don't see anything there. I feel like this is an issue with the order in which I access private and public shares. Like the first time I connect to the server I need to either connect to the private first or the public, then reboot. I recall on my desktop I kept encountering errors regarding using multiple credentials when connecting to the server, even though only one share is private and all the rest are public. I did something with the net command to force my way through that problem. This particular laptop is about to be returned because of a deadspot on the screen. So I'll get a fresh start on this with a clean machine. Perhaps I'll stumble upon the right pattern the first time and all will be well.

This may not be an unraid problem as such, but it's something I run into every time I either make a big upgrade in samba or set up a new linux box or when I set up a new windows computer. I have multiple windows computers working correctly right now with my unraid server, but my new laptop refuses to do what I want. After I mount a private share and provide the proper credentials and tell it to save the credentials, I reboot, and I have to enter the password again. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, and I don't remember that magic combination to make this work. I've tried mounting via explorer, and use the "net use" command. I've tried no domain name as well as using my server's name as the domain. I can repeatedly connect to the shares again and again, but no matter what when I reboot it refuses to automate this connection. I have done this in the past, I have two computers doing this now, but it typically takes me dozens and dozens of tries over several hours before I luck into it, so I can never remember exactly how to repeat this. Does anybody else run into this issue?

If it were a network problem then larger files would also transfer slow. But I just tried a 30GB file, and it immediately started transferring around 90MB/s, then a 600MB file went at 40MB/s. This is copying from the same drive on my desktop to the same directory on the server. I don't understand the discrepancy in these numbers at all.