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I just got a new MB/CPU/Memory.
I'm having issues running memtest for a long period of time. I eventually get errors.
I just updated the BIOS of the M/B and I"m re-running.
I'm running memtest 5.01.
I can boot the win7 install disk.. I can boot to the unraid gui...
Should I be able to run memtest overnight without errors?
Jim
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Does anyone know off the top of their head..
Is the 9201-8i a x8 card? or is it a x4 card? (I know it has 8 disk ports.. I'm talking about PCIe- lanes..)
Update: It looks like like it's a x8 chip.. I had to go to broadcom's website to find it! :-)
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1 hour ago, bjp999 said:
Is the Supermicro card you have an AOC-SASLP-MV8. That card can have compatibility issues with unRaid, and would suggest replacing it.
You might read this to better understand if you need a PCIe 2.0 card. In general I would say yes.
I'd have to look and see what card I have. But I've been running fine with it for years now. So I doubt there are any compatibility issues unless there is when plugging into my new MB.
I'm currently looking at a SAS9201-8i 6GB PCIe Express 2.0 I found one on e-bay for $44.... so I might just buy it.
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I'm going to upgrade my whole unraid system.. Right now I have some supermicro 8 port add in card
that I believe is pci-e 1.0 and sata 3Gb/s
Is it worth upgrading to a pci-e 2.0 card that is Sata 6Gb/s?
I'm going to have a NVMe 250GB disk as a cache and use some of the onboard 6GB/s (6 of them, I believe) for parity
and the other big disks and use the other card for the smaller (older) disks.
So it is worth upgrading if I have such a fast cache drive? I'm looking at a SAS9201-8i on e-bay for $44.. I assume my cables would still work?
It's mainly used for media backup but the new server will host my home DVR as well
Thanks,
Jim
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Oh hey! There it is... "Enable Bonding" Maybe I should have looked first there! lol
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4 minutes ago, Zonediver said:
In v6 it is supported - but the switch "must" be able too, so check it out.
Yeah. My switch supports link aggregation. So is the link aggregation automatic in Unraid? Or is it something I have to set?
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I'm going to upgrade my Unraid setup and I was wondering if Teaming/bonding is now supported? Last time I checked (several years ago) it wasn't.
Is it worth getting a MB with dual 1G onboard nics? (My switch supports this, I believe)
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Dumb question.. How do you guy get your passmark rating? Is there a plugin for that? Or an unraid installable app?
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on my way! Thanks, Fuzzy!
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1 minute ago, CraziFuzzy said:
Yes, if you are using cablecard tuners, then you will need to have opendct running somewhere on your network (just makes sense to do that in a docker on the same machine).
Awesome! Is there another post that's just about the sage docker? I can't seem to create the sage docker and I have questions...
This probably isn't the correct subforum! :-D
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1 minute ago, CraziFuzzy said:
My docker is not for SageTV, it's for OpenDCT, which is a network encoder for the HDHR and InfiniTV tuners. It communicates directly to those tuners, and presents the streams to SageTV. It is not required unless you are using a CableCard tuner, which is not natively supported in SageTV. It does, however, provide some added capabilities, such as the transcoding I discussed earlier, as well as being able to create custom channels from HTTP or PIPE sources (typically used for IP cameras and such).
You want to install Stuckless' Java 8 based docker.
And then yours as well since I have the cable card tuners! right?
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There are 3 sageTV apps. yours, and Java8 and 7.. Which one do I want?
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Fuzzy,
Dumb question.. With the sage docker template.. How do you get to the GUI?
Right now I have a Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU @ 2.4 GHz with 6G of ram running Unraid so I want to beef that up before I try a docker..
I was hoping to combine the sage server and the unraid server and it looks like I'll be able to! :-)
You're giving me hope that this will all work great!
Jim
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8 minutes ago, CraziFuzzy said:
For reference, I am running on a somewhat overkill i7-6700, but it allows me to transcode the streams from my HDHR-2US and HDHR-Prime on the fly as they are being recorded (I'm using openDCT to interface Sage to the HDHR's, which adds some features, like the transcoding). I'm using the ultrafast720p30fps transcode_profile.
With a recording going, watching the processor load, comskip uses about 15-20% of a core, and the transcode uses about 90% of a core.With 4 recordings going, overalll my unRAID server is at 65% total cpu load, with realtime transcoding and comskip of all recordings. This is recording to a cache pool made up of 2 mid-tier M.2 128GB SSD's.
That's good to know. I could have 6 stream recording at one time. I'm glad you are here that I can, hopefully, pick your brain! :-)
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16 minutes ago, CraziFuzzy said:
Also, if you are using network based tuners, then I would avoid using a VM for sage - you gain nothing in doing so, and the linux build of sage is patently better in that it supports a larger memory footprint, by running in a 64-bit JVM. Just grab the sagetv app from the Community Applications plugin, and you'll immediately have a working sagetv server that you can then configure as you like.
Fuzzy!! Is this the same fuzzy from the sage forums?
Now is this sage app the same as the linux build of sage? I was planning on going linux (as the guide data is going away and I needed to upgrade anyway..)
I need to educate myself the difference between a docker and a VM. I haven't looked into any of that yet. But I assumed I would need a Linux VM for sage.. But if a docker will work, then great.
Will I be able to just copy over my wiz.bin and properties file and it will magically work?
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24 minutes ago, tdallen said:
VMs under unRAID seem to run best with pinned cores. Generalizations follow - your case may be different.
Dual core CPUs won't work well for VMs, neither will dual core with hyperthreading. A quad core CPU can work but doesn't give you much room to work with. Quad core CPUs with hyperthreading (E3, Core i7) are where you really start to get some performance and flexibility and generally have the horsepower to run a serious VM. 6+ cores are what you want for multiple serious performance sensitive VMs.
Keep in mind the hardware requirements for IOMMU (aka VT-d on Intel) if you need to support a TV tuner card.
Thanks for the info... My tuners are all network based..
So do I then need a dual-multi core cpu system?? Or a singe 6 core would handle Unraid and my Sage needs?
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2 hours ago, ashman70 said:
What are you future plans? Do you plan to run any VM's or any more dockers? Why do you think you might need a dual CPU system, what would all the horsepower be for?
How many drives do you currently have, do you plan to add more? Are there any motherboard features you want or would like to have?
I have no Idea what my future plans are. Probably just the Sage TV VM. I don't want to starve Sage while it trying to record 6 shows at once while Unraid is doing a parity check!
I have 9 + parity + 2 cache drives. I don't need any specific MB features except maybe dual Gig Ethernet that can be teamed (does unraid support that yet?)
This will run mostly headless.
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I'm looking to upgrade my unraid box in the near future. I currently have a a core2 duo @2.4G with 6G memory.
I also have a win 7 PC that I use for running SageTV. I want to combine the 2 and run Sage in a
docker/VM (haven't looked into any of that yet).
I'm looking to spend about $1000-$1200 for a new MB, CPU and Memory. I believe my Power supply and case are fine. I'd like to be a little power conscious..
Might I need a dual CPU system with some supermicro MB? Intel or AMD RYZEN? I used to be well versed in the latest CPUs but now I'm way behind!
So I would appreciate any recommendations. I know some of you guys just love to spec systems out! :-)
Thanks in advance!
Jim
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I also have issues with latency and such when the parity check is going on. I'm curious how folks that use dockers and such are effected
by the parity check? Is my machine just that under powered?
I've wanted this feature for a while too..
Jim
Edit: Oh wait I was the OP! lol
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nice.. just grabbed one! What cables do I need for these?
Jim
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Since the primary purpose for the preclear function has been made obsolete, (FINALLY!)
Ok.. What did I miss? I haven't been following too closely.. Did limetech do something in an update that changes how we add a drive?
Jim
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hmm.. A pair mirrored for the cache drive... maybe....
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I think so.. But you have to call.. There was no option for "Replace" only "refund"Oh good, I'm glad to hear that. Do you think they would've sent you a replacement if they didn't think you used the 1-time coupon twice?
Jim
Should I expect memtest to run overnight?
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I've narrowed it down to the block test failing. If I just run that test it fails pretty quickly. If I run the test single core it seems to run ok. Multi core fails quickly. over clocked fails, stock fails, underclocked fails. CPU underclocked fails too.
2nd set of DIMMS from work fails too.
This is the 2nd MB since the first showed the same errors and had bent pins.
Could it be the CPU??