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On 9/19/2020 at 1:22 PM, mgutt said:
By this guide Plex uses your RAM while transcoding which prevents wearing out your SSD.
Edit the Plex Container and enable the "Advanced View":
Add this to "Extra Parameters" and hit "Apply":
--mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp,tmpfs-size=4000000000
Result:
Side note: If you dislike permanent writes to your SSD add " --no-healthcheck ", too.
Now open Plex -> Settings -> Transcoder and change the path to "/tmp":
If you like to verify it's working, you can open the Plex containers Console:
Now enter this command while a transcoding is running:
df -h
Transcoding to RAM-Disk works if "Use%" of /tmp is not "0%":
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 3.8G 193M 3.7G 5% /tmp
After some time it fills up to nearly 100%:
tmpfs 3.8G 3.7G 164M 97% /tmp
And then Plex purges the folder automatically:
tmpfs 3.8G 1.3G 3.5G 33% /tmp
If you stop the movie Plex will delete everything:
tmpfs 3.8G 3.8G 0 0% /tmp
By this method Plex never uses more than 4GB RAM, which is important, as fully utilizing your RAM can cause an unexpected server behaviour.
Hi @mgutt
I think you made some changes to your guide since last time. 😄
And I now have some issues after I enabled "download" option from Plex locally to a few family members iPad's they now get a error message stating:
Playback error - Not enough diskspace to convert this file/subject (Translating)
I then checked my RAM usage and it was +99% and in the "PlexRamScratch" folder (I use your script to create two dirs on tmp one for Plex & Emby
PlexRamScratch Script runs at boot:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir /tmp/PlexRamScratch
chmod -R 777 /tmp/PlexRamScratch
mount -t tmpfs -o size=8g tmpfs /tmp/PlexRamScratchMy existing extra parameters PLEX:
--runtime=nvidia --no-healthcheck --log-opt max-size=50m --log-opt max-file=1 --restart unless-stoppedSo I guess this would be my new extra parameters of PLEX?:
--runtime=nvidia --no-healthcheck --log-opt max-size=50m --log-opt max-file=1 --mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp/PlexRamScratch,tmpfs-size=8000000000 --restart unless-stoppedPLEX docker mount as before:
Container Path: /transcode --> /tmp/PlexRamScratchWould this be enough to fix these new Download/transcode media files for local devices?
Thanks for spending the time to share all this info with everyone!
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I love all the Unraid plugins but I think I have some conflict between them but I cant find out what it is? 🙂
It just happened again and it just occurred that it might be something I should post here instead:
During the night all my dockers dosent auto start again?
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Hi binhex
I think you are the one to ask
Over some years I have transferred data one way --> to my Unraid server
FTP, Synchting, Resilio Sync, and latest LFTP using Seedsync Docker & Ubuntu VM Last one very unstable)
Could I use your binhex rclone to connect to my off-site server and do a oneway synct to my unraid server?
I have read all of the post and they are mostly about google drive and big vendors?
I was able to install rclone on the remote server doing this:
Would this make it possible to use your docker?
And would the configuration be simpler?
Sorry I am still trying to get my head around settings this up to just run and work (FAST
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@trurl you wrote above that you can just replace both drives (I also need to replace both my Parity drives with larger ones 🙂)
Would it be safer to replace and rebuild with only one parity drive at a time? or is the risk the same?
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Hi Everyone
I really hope someone can help me out?
After update my dockers is not started up again?
Status shows exited 3 hours ago for all of them and that match the auto update
Logfile:
Docker-no-atuto-start-after-backup-diagnostics-20211025-0639.zip
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Hi All - I think below topic is relevant under our "Tweaks for media server and performance"
Currently there is allot of talk about the video done by: IBRACORP
And the guide made by TRaSH on Unraid setup of Media shares on Unraid
I followed another recommendation and created a UAD for my downloads and then move them.
Downloads to Unassigned drive --> Cache --> Array seperate shared folders for media
I would like to hear what you have done?
My setup is the "old school" with a different share for each media and IMPORTANT for me the correct split level!
Music
Albums
TV Shows
TV shows kids
TV shows
Movies
Animation
Stand-up
Concerts
Movies 4K
Movies
Movies Kids
My setup required different split levels (Mainly in case of a crashed drive its much easier to see what's lost if data is grouped at leas by Seasons and a movie folder keept on one drive. Not to menschen spinning up drives if you are bench watching something
The structure recommended in the video and the webpage is all under one parent share called DATA:
(I actual like the simplicity of this directory setup) - just not sure its the best on UNRAID
The media folder at the bottom would then have subfolders for each of your media folder if you like me split them up....
QUESTION: Do you use this new setup? (I can see how this would simplify the paths between all the dockers and *.rr's apps and make atomic move/hardlink possible)
If you are running this setup then what split level are you using?
What would be the optimal settings?
Not sure how this works (I dont understand the new split level headers the old one with level was much easier to understand!
I can see the recommended share settings for data is this:
One more interesting Tweak I found on the webpage is for the new PLEX scanner is the IMDB ID support on the folder names:
(Could be handy if you need to rescan your collection or move the file structure like above?)
As always if you think this is off topic I will move my post 🙂
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Apologies if this has already ben covered in this thread!
But I just realized that I have 3 free OpenVPN connection to my remote server available
but is it possible to use OpenVPN? I know PIA is the recommended solution
Using any of your great dockers like:
binhex-qbittorrentvpn
binhex-rtorrentvpn
binhex-delugevpn
binhex-sabnzbdvpn
Or would the only way to do this be a custum network using my pfsense and creating a tunnel?
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HELP!
I did something stupid the Mineosnode have two path defined in the docker:
I was cleaning up and the folder on my cache drive /mnt/cache/minecraft
Was empty so I made sure the folder was set to the Array and that the folder was present so I deleted the folder on the cache drive
Now when I start up Mineosnode I have no server!
BUT when I go to the /mnt/cache/appdata/minecraft/ all the files are there?
I tried to change it back but my server is empty when Mineosnode starts up....
UPDATE: This fixed it... https://discourse.codeemo.com/t/after-rebooting-my-unraid-server-my-server-disappeared-from-the-ui-but-it-still-shows-as-running/3836/7
Seem this changed my permissions on the files?
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On 10/28/2020 at 1:49 AM, mgutt said:
Overflow is only valid for Shared Paths. A Direct Path (/mnt/cache) does not overflow to the array. This means, if the cache becomes full and you use /mnt/cache, the Plex Container will produce errors, because it is out of storage. That is the reason why I suggest in my guide to set "Min. free space" in your Global Share Settings.
Example:
- 1TB SSD cache
- /mnt/cache is your SSD
- /mnt/disk1 is your array
- /mnt/user/Movies uses disk1 and uses the cache setting "yes"
Scenario 1
- Plex appdata is set to /mnt/user/...
- You upload more than 1TB of movies to your server. After occupying 1TB of your SSD, further movie files are written to the array.
- As the SSD is full, Plex writes to the array
Scenario 2
- Plex appdata is set to /mnt/cache...
- You upload more than 1TB of movies to your server. After occupying 1TB of your SSD, further movie files are written to the array.
- As the SSD is full, Plex produces errors
Scenario 3
- You set 100GB Min. Free Space
- Plex appdata is set to /mnt/cache...
- You upload more than 1TB of movies to your server. After occupying 900GB of your SSD, further movie files are written to the array.
- As there are still 100GB left, Plex works as usual
I did all this when we first discussed the /mnt/cache and after some time you really get used to having all the appdata and VM's on your fast cache drive.
My 2TB Nvme drive is reaching the 100G limit (Now defined on the cache drive and not the Gloval share settings)
If money wasn't an issue I would upgrade to a nvme 4TB - but they are incredible expensive (My IRQ doesn't allow for a second nvme)
So my option is to do some split of VM's some on the Cache drive and others on the Array
How would this best be done in practice? I gues it isnt enought to remove the /mnt/cache/ path when the "domains" folder is set to: Prefer
Would the best option keeping performance be to create a new domains share on the array? and just split them (Fast & Slow)
@mgutt Also I am still using many of your great scripts (Also in this thread) the one you did for doing backups of the "Plex appdata backup" - Having everything on cache for speed requires good backup 🙂
I was wondering if you have a similar solution doing VM backups? (I found the solution in the app store to be buggy and cause to many problems) again thanks for all your help and especially all the great posts that you share with all of us in the forum!
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On 10/10/2021 at 7:43 PM, casperse said:
Hi All
I just experienced my Unraid system to be really unresponsive and some of my dockers stopped running.
I found the reason - it was this docker: Seedsync
Looks like this docker was created under the Selfhostersnets-template so hoping someone can help me?
I did have the parameter set: --cpus=2 --memory=3G --log-opt max-size=50m --log-opt max-file=1 --restart unless-stopped --user 99:100
Anyone who can help me get this working?
Can anyone share whats wrong with this docker template?
I have installed it 3 times and after some time it just fills up the entire docker file and crashes everything
There isnt any special fancy setup its pretty basic? maybee some logfile that isnt configured correctly?
I did set all the special parameters and it still crashed
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Hi All
I found that the SeedSync docker filled up my docker file:
I was told that running it on a Ubuntu VM was the solution getting MAX speed and no Crash 🙂
But after getting everything up and running the LAN speed was extremely slow (Speedtest was a joke)
I found other friendly people wrote that I should change my XML setting for the LAN
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:69:21:10'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='virtio-net'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</interface>From virtio-net --> virtio
And that did help some, but is there anything else I need to change?
My configurations is as follows.
with 4G Ram and 4 Cores and its running on a fast Nvme so the HW should be okay
Or is the only option to do a LAN passthrough?
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <domain type='kvm' id='21'> <name>SeedSync</name> <uuid>90f5452f-97e5-48d1-0407-a5144368fdc3</uuid> <description>Ubuntu v.18.04.3</description> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Ubuntu" icon="/mnt/user/domains/seedsync/seedsync.png" os="ubuntu"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>4194304</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>4194304</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='6'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='11'/> </cputune> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-4.0.1'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/90f5452f-97e5-48d1-0407-a5144368fdc3_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none' migratable='on'> <topology sockets='1' dies='1' cores='2' threads='2'/> <cache mode='passthrough'/> </cpu> <clock offset='utc'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <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/user/domains/seedsync/vdisk1.img' index='1'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <alias name='virtio-disk2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </disk> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'> <alias name='pcie.0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='1' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='1' port='0x10'/> <alias name='pci.1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='2' port='0x11'/> <alias name='pci.2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='3' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='3' port='0x12'/> <alias name='pci.3'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='4' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='4' port='0x13'/> <alias name='pci.4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x3'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='5' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='5' port='0x14'/> <alias name='pci.5'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x4'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <alias name='virtio-serial0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='sata' index='0'> <alias name='ide'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> <alias name='usb'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> <alias name='usb'/> <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'> <alias name='usb'/> <master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <alias name='usb'/> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/> </controller> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/mnt/disks/SEED/seedbox/'/> <target dir='downloads'/> <alias name='fs0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </filesystem> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:69:21:10'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <target dev='vnet3'/> <model type='virtio'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/6'/> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> <alias name='serial0'/> </serial> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/6'> <source path='/dev/pts/6'/> <target type='serial' port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-21-SeedSync/org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0' state='disconnected'/> <alias name='channel0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'> <alias name='input0'/> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </input> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'> <alias name='input1'/> </input> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'> <alias name='input2'/> </input> <graphics type='vnc' port='5906' autoport='yes' websocket='5706' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-gb'> <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/> </graphics> <video> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/> <alias name='video0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <alias name='balloon0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x04' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> <seclabel type='dynamic' model='dac' relabel='yes'> <label>+0:+100</label> <imagelabel>+0:+100</imagelabel> </seclabel> </domain>
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Stupid me! I thought it was RAM since it is located under RAM usage
So something in the docker "leaks" and fills up the virtual disk - and that was why all my dockers was crashing!
So maybee there is a way to fix this docker? (The settings was minimal so must be the docker configuration?)
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Hi All
I just experienced my Unraid system to be really unresponsive and some of my dockers stopped running.
I found the reason - it was this docker: Seedsync
Looks like this docker was created under the Selfhostersnets-template so hoping someone can help me?
I did have the parameter set: --cpus=2 --memory=3G --log-opt max-size=50m --log-opt max-file=1 --restart unless-stopped --user 99:100
Anyone who can help me get this working?
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docker ps -s
I think I found the "Troublemaker" but how can it do this?
Already did the: --cpus=2 --memory=3G --log-opt max-size=50m --log-opt max-file=1 --restart unless-stopped --user 99:100
Also stopping the docker dosent help?
UPDATE: I deleted the docker and the Docker memory went back to normal
But shouldnt the parameter: --memory=3G prevent this?
How can it still use +17G?
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Sorry @mgutt to bother you once again and opening this older thread again.....But the problem is now only for the "Docker"
I am experiencing some very strange Docker problems and I have a hard time finding out what docker is causing this:
There is no high usage in the tmp RAM drives:
du -h --max-depth=3 /tmp
Could this be the reason?
Using the cache path for the docker.img?
Some docker installed must be causing this just don't know wich one or why?
ps aux | awk '{print $6/1024 " MB\t\t" $11}' | sort -n
16.582 MB python 17.3125 MB /usr/sbin/smbd 17.5234 MB /usr/bin/python 19.043 MB /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/controlr/controlr 19.8828 MB /usr/bin/python 24.8672 MB /usr/sbin/libvirtd 25.1602 MB /usr/sbin/smbd 26.8789 MB /usr/bin/php 31.8672 MB docker 32.1836 MB docker 33.1055 MB /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex 33.3242 MB node 36.3906 MB Plex 36.7695 MB Plex 38.0781 MB python 42.3008 MB php-fpm: 44.6875 MB /usr/libexec/Xorg 46.6641 MB php-fpm: 50.2266 MB Plex 50.8242 MB containerd 53.9688 MB php-fpm: 55.1719 MB /usr/sbin/Xvnc 58.2305 MB python3 63.3789 MB /usr/bin/node 65.7617 MB node 77.293 MB python3 77.332 MB photoprism 100.305 MB /usr/bin/dockerd 147.938 MB /app/Jackett/jackett 166.316 MB /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex 184.473 MB /app/radarr/bin/Radarr 189.133 MB /usr/bin/mariadbd 191.445 MB /app/radarr/bin/Radarr 191.871 MB /usr/local/sbin/shfs 193.797 MB /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex 259.641 MB mongod 281.68 MB /usr/bin/node 305.422 MB /opt/ombi/Ombi 321.5 MB /usr/bin/mariadbd 360.402 MB python 382.773 MB python 386.188 MB python 433.527 MB python 484.84 MB /system/EmbyServer 608.957 MB python 688.418 MB /app/lidarr/bin/Lidarr 696.168 MB mono 782.914 MB python 1237.76 MB /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 2181.66 MB /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 3288.1 MB /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 4347.03 MB /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 8444.67 MB /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 8507.56 MB /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
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On 10/5/2021 at 2:34 PM, Squid said:
HTTPS is greyed out because use SSL is set to no.
Yes my bad - I did that when I had to SSH into the config to get my login page up again, so I could start the server (Forgot I changed Auto to no)
Finally got the new monitor cable for the server a DISPLAY Adapter to HDMI (So I could troubleshoot and do the network changes port change with the GUI on my screen)
But for some reason the GUI is not displayed after Bios and loading of Unraid? (Cant catch a break...one problem to a new one)
I have not changed any of my settings, and it used to work on my old 1280p monitor now I have a new 4K display
I have search the forum but my BIOS settings looks ok?
I have set the IGP as the default in the BIOS on the motherboard and it works but only during boot!
Then it stops and flashed this on the monitor before going black (Here it was running in 1080 so resolution is ok)
I managed to catch this with my phone...
The below txt "failed to connect happens after a very long timeout" (Since I havent had any screen doing boot for some time I don't know if this is normal?)
UPDATE: I guess this problem is alreday known and is fixed by uninstalling the VM backup....
Really a shame I really liked having backup of my VM's
But is this also the reason the GUI doesn't work anymore... or just these 3 above errors?
(I am rebuilding with a new drive so I cant reboot for some time now )
Bios settings:
Diagnostic file:
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On 10/6/2021 at 3:43 PM, Cat_Seeder said:
I can't vouch for the best / preferred solution. But PIA has been working fine here, and I managed speeds over 600 Mbps with the "new" wireguard VPNs. I'm currently using Switzerland and Spain servers (I'm in Europe).
So you can use the PIA wiregurad conf in the vpn setup using binhex-rtorrentvpn?
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On 10/5/2021 at 5:17 PM, mgutt said:
Maybe you have a conflict with a VM, because 6000 is usually used by X11. Try 5000/5001 as I mentioned in my manual.
That could be it! - (My Synology uses 5000/5001 default for Synology - its running as a VM)
I will try 8000/8001
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Hi All
I had some problems with PIA not the binhex-rtorrentvpn docker! when I used this 2 years ago
Would like to know if PIA is still the preferred VPN provider?
Or if someone found another provider with better speeds? and stable connections?
Thanks for all your info in this thread!
BTW: I think there was some specific VPN countries from PIA that where better than others? is this still the case?
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On 10/5/2021 at 7:10 PM, mgutt said:
It does. "not found" is an answer of the container. Try a completely different port which is not used by any container and you will see an error instead.
What happens if you open http://192.168.0.6:8282/ through your browser?
I am beginning to think this is just "one of these dockers" that isnt working with a proxy
Yes the : http://192.168.0.6:8282 will provide me with the same error page
Only http://192.168.0.6:8282/youtube-dl will work
Yes just doing the curl for a port not in use:
Doing it for my Bitwarden container and it shows up fine....
So some containers is just not "seen" from the NMP and these will never work?
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That is really interesting!
Both dockers the NPM and the Youtube-dl is on the same special proxynet I defined
And for some reason the NMP container cannot reach the Youtube docker?
I did another test and if manually just add "/youtube-dl" to the end of the new subdomain with new cert. then it works http://youtube.domain.com/youtube-dl ??
curl http://192.168.0.6/login
Here is the login webpage: - do you think there might be some error (Done allot of upgrades since my first Unraid 🙂
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> ...
Just ordered a new monitor cable so I can have a local monitor on my server boot up with the UI, the next time I try to change my ports away from 80 & 443 LOL
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20 minutes ago, casperse said:
I just removed the docker and deleted the docker image.
I then re-installed it with my previous settings and I still have the container ports wrong?
They are greyed out in the Docker config, is there anywhere I can set them manually in the docker config folder?
Ok I am stupid forgot to set the special network, after installing it from scratch then it worked again
(This dosent work for me with Host or Bridge)
Had so many problems trying to change my Unraid ports, that I have to wait for help fixing this (Other thread)
So for now I will keep it using 1443 & 180 - and forget about IPv6 for now
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I just removed the docker and deleted the docker image.
I then re-installed it with my previous settings and I still have the container ports wrong?
They are greyed out in the Docker config, is there anywhere I can set them manually in the docker config folder?
Plex: Guide to Moving Transcoding to RAM
in Docker Containers
Posted
So basically I should just keep the existing solution? - no benefits but simplicity
(I like to see how much Plex/Emby uses of my memory)
I haven't used this sync/download feature for a very very long time (years) long before setting RAM up for transcoding
But I know Plex just released a major update on how it works now:
https://www.plex.tv/blog/going-off-grid-just-got-great/
I cant see a way to define a separate download path in Plex
So my only solution would be to upgrade my memory to 128GB 🤑 or move transcoding to my NVMe cache drive😖