dmwilson1990

I imagine sleeping any VMs would be a tricky thing to implement. But it would an appreciated feature. +1

So that was weird... I changed the processor type to QEMU64 and my physics score in Fire Strike jumped to almost 10,000. Why? http://www.3dmark.com/fs/8656019 CPU-Z and Fire Strike both detect that I'm using a Intel Pentium II processor.

I've done quite a few tests now that I'm home from work and can't seem to make any real improvement. It does not make a difference if one or both of the VMs are powered on. Below are some of the tests I've done using CPU-Z's benchmarking feature. It's also worth noting that CPU-Z see's my CPU as a Xenon E5 and not a 5820K. 4 Cores 2 Threads: 1679(single) 3886(multi) 4 Cores 1 Thread: 1690(s) 3863(m) 2 Core 2 Threads: 1623(s) 3914(m) 2 Core 2 Threads (w/o emulator pin): 1650(s) 3858(m) 3 Cores 2 Threads: 1670(s) 5284(m) 3 Cores 2 Threads (w/o isolcpus): 1646(s) 5284(m)

So ideally I'd have my system configured as follows? I don't quite understand why you said I only have 2 cores attached to one and 3 cores attached to the other? How would your recommended configuration give each VM four cores? Also, I do not have any docker instances. Limetech's physics benchmark is so much better than mine for hardware that should not be as good. Not quite sure why... http://lime-technology.com/gaming-on-a-nas-you-better-believe-it/ Syslinux Configuration label unRAID OS menu default kernel /bzimage append isolcpus=2,3,4,5,8,9,10,11 initrd=/bzroot VM1 XML <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='2'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='3'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='8'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='9'/> <emulatorpin cpuset='1,7'/> </cputune> VM2 XML <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='4'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='10'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='11'/> <emulatorpin cpuset='1,7'/> </cputune>

So I've done some tweaking... http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/12264175? I followed the guide below and "pinned" my CPU's to the two VM's which resulted in slightly better scores. However, overclocking to 4GHz made a bigger difference. My issue now is some games do not see the CPU properly (Heroes of the Storm and Bioshock Infinite so far) and disable physics. You can force Bioshock to offload physics to the GPU but in Heroes any options related to the CPU are in red and can not be enabled at all. 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I received dual GTX 1080s this morning and ran Fire Strike 1.1 to see how it performed. The results are in the link below: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/8643594 The GPU performed great in the benchmark and Overwatch is running at ~100fps. However, I was rather surprised with how poorly my CPU performed. I have an Intel 5820k with 6 cores assigned to each VM and no overclocking. 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I was able to buy two 1080s direct from NVidia this morning and they will be delivered before 10am tomorrow morning! I feel like I should frame the confirmation email lol If anyone is interested I'll take some pictures and do a few benchmarks.

I really appreciate your help on this but I think I'm going to have to give up. I've always tried to pass each GPU on the card to the same VM and I've always been rudely presented with Nvidia's code 43. After a lot of digging I discovered another thread on the RHEL VFIO Users describing the same issue with the GTX 690. I'll just have to wait a few more days until I can get my hands on a couple of GTX 1080s! https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2015-December/msg00086.html

Thank you for the reply. I tried your suggestion but I'm still unable to pass the device through properly. When I run lspci -tvv the cards look lower down on the bus. Is it possible to pass the card though a little bit higher up? If so, what would I need to change in the XML? 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I just sent an email to support. Hopefully they will be able to shed some light on the issue. However, if the GTX 690 is "special" and can't be passed though for whatever reason it won't be the end of the world. I had a couple laying around and wanted to test and run benchmarks. My main concern is if I will have any issues once the GTX 1080 comes out. Do you foresee any issues with that card?

I've tried Hyper-V set to no and I ended up flashing the vbios of the GPU to support UEFI to try OMVF...I still get code 43. The GTX 690 has two physcial GPUs chips on the same card and each chip is in its own IOMMU group. Could that cause any issues?

In prep for the launch of the GTX 1080 I built a new PC and installed a couple of GTX 690 cards to test with. Unfortunately I can not get past Nvidia's code 43 error. I have tried the current stable and beta versions of unRAID with the same results. Any help would be appreciated. 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I figured I would not be the only one not using traditional platter based drives. Glad it's working well for you! If I were to create an all SSD array what settings would you recommend I change to create a best case scenario for reliability? I know that unRAID supports btrfs which should support TRIM; however, is that only avabialible on the cache? Also, would dual M.2 SSDs as a cache for a slower SSD array be advantageous?

Hmm...that does not make a lot of sense. I deal with a lot of servers at work (all hardware RAIDs) and every drive is an SSD; I guess I don't understand why RAID 5 is not possible with SSDs in a software RAID. I can't bring myself to purchase a platter based drive. Would you recommend I place all six SSDs in the cache instead to avoid data loss?

I've recently purchased the majority of components (all but GPUs) required to build a solid unRAID NAS / gaming machine. I would like to install six 500GB SSDs and stay away from platter based media if at all possible. However, unRAID's documentation states the following: As this will be a also NAS I really want something that's going to be rock solid stable, however, I've not touched a platter based drive in years. Is this outdated information or is unRAID really not capable of a SSD only RAID? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. ########## - Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor - ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard - Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory - 6x Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive - 2x NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founders Edition (to be purchased on launch)