allanp81

Seems like I have solved this by setting the emulatorpin to isolated cores. The vm has now run all night without a single spike of latency.

That in theory can be ignored, the time stamp is from a few days ago and I've since removed plex docker as I prefer emby.

Yes I've done that, all of my dockers are pinned to cores that exclude 0,8 (emulatorpin) and 7,15 (isolated in boot and assigned to vm).

Attached. Thanks downloadbox-diagnostics-20170228-1501.zip

I'm running my VM on its own SSD via the unassigned drives plugin. Docker appdata is on my cache drives. My CPU layout is: cpu 0 / 8 cpu 1 / 9 cpu 2 / 10 cpu 3 / 11 cpu 4 / 12 cpu 5 / 13 cpu 6 / 14 cpu 7 / 15 <domain type='kvm'> <name>Windows 7</name> <uuid>fc50096a-8ce6-42f8-cb09-6ea353933498</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 7" icon="windows7.png" os="windows7"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>8388608</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>8388608</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='7'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='15'/> <emulatorpin cpuset='1,9'/> </cputune> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.7'>hvm</type> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv> <relaxed state='on'/> <vapic state='on'/> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> <vendor_id state='on' value='none'/> </hyperv> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough'> <topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='2'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/disks/Samsung_SSD_850_PRO_512GB_S250NX0H420722F/vdisk1.img'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> <master startport='0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'> <master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:d2:8b:a3'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes' xvga='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='no'> <source> <vendor id='0x046e'/> <product id='0x5577'/> </source> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </hostdev> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain>

I' still seeing some fluctuations in my win7 VM when dockers are used. I've set my VM to use cores 7 and 15 (both isolated), set the emulator pin to 0,1,8,9 and set all dockers to use all of the cores that are left over. Generally the vm is rock solid, I can use Emby docker and watch transcoded video for instance without it affecting the VM but if I do something such as update or restart a docker, you will see a spike of latency on the vm. Not sure what I can do to address this? I'm assuming it's because the docker engine is using some cpu time from 0,1,8,9 to do its upgrade/restart.

Has anyone got plex working via lets encrypt/nginx successfully? I can half get it to work but it wants me to log in whereas on my local network it just opens.

Running latest Unraid and not sure that my cpus are being isolated successfully. I get no errors etc. but if I launch my plex docker and begin streaming a video I can see the CPU load is being spread across all CPUs, including those that have been isolated. This causes massive latency spikes in my win7 VM. Should that happen? If the cores/threads are isolated should plex be able to use them? *EDIT* I'm a div, I put the cpu isolation section in the wrong part of the boot config. Looks like finally I have a win7 VM I can use! It just goes to show, just because a motherboard and CPU say they support VT-D/VT-X etc. it doesn't mean it will actually work very well. I was running a Z97 chipset motherboard with a corei5, both of which support virtualisation but latency was always all over the place and basically any VM was always unusable. Upgraded to an X99 Asrock board with Xeon 2620 v4 and now it works great., no latency issues of any kind. Still have to isolate cores even with this setup though to get a latency free environment.

Has anyone managed to get plex to work without needing a login? I can access the server no problem externally but it always wants me to login via plex whereas on my home network I don't need to. I've tried loads of configs I've found dotted around the web but none work without needing me to login.

I've managed to get it working now using the following guide: http://cyanlabs.net/tutorials/the-complete-unraid-reverse-proxy-duck-dns-dynamic-dns-and-letsencrypt-guide/

I'm still looking for some pointers as to how to get some of my services working via nginx. The lets encrypt part works fine, I can see the page that says: Welcome to our server The website is currently being setup under this address. For help and support, please contact: [email protected] I have forwarded 443 on my router etc. and can see that page when I try and access remotely but if I try and set up something like couch potato then I still see the same page even though the url shows the login information that you'd normally see for couch potato.

Yes, that appears to work ok as it prompts. I've tried removing that section from the default file and same issue.

Default config:

Can anyone help me please? I've got lets encrypt working but cannot for the life of me get something like Couch Potato to work via the proxy part. I've set it so that it should https://myserver/cp and it kind of looks like it works as the url changes automatically to the login url but the page itself just still shows the default index.html.