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ya i just changed cpu from a 3700x to a 5800x to try things and i didnt plug in the network cables.. but i find it always slow and it hangs at a udev:/ for like 5 min it seems and i dont know why the cpu utliziation does that infinity stuff.. but i can do a reboot with the network cables in and take another diagnostic

so id like to know why unraid is super slow when boots up.. it hangs at a udev part and another part i couldnt take a pic of it also cpu usage is infinity... is there anything in logs showing why its hanging so much and why i get this infinity tardis-diagnostics-20230628-1453.zip

there seems to be something wrong with my unraid i posted an issue no one has replied to about parent br br2 br3 and i trying to reinstall shinbo to try this program out but i find there is only custom br0 not br0 to br5 whats causing this issue? i get this error no one has figured out Jun 24 19:36:42 Tardis root: Error response from daemon: network dm-b6e310e46181 is already using parent interface br2 Jun 24 19:36:42 Tardis root: Error response from daemon: network dm-27db50de59ed is already using parent interface br3 Jun 24 19:36:42 Tardis root: Error response from daemon: network dm-384eab18d937 is already using parent interface br4 so in dockers all i have is none,bridge,host, custom:br0 i dont get my other brs.. i tried deleting the network.cfg to try to fix it but it didnt help what can i do to fix this error and what not and get the customs br's back tardis-diagnostics-20230624-1943.zip

i booted up my unraid checked the logs and i got 3 errors what does it mean and how do i fix it that my network has no bandwith limit? i see these warnings tardis-diagnostics-20230622-1743.zip

ah ok... so for plex no transcoding needed .. as its all direct play from xbox to plex or PC to plex.. i dont do the phone at home and my internet is too slow less then 500k upload so i just do it at home... plus i think u need to buy the full blown plex to get hardware transcoding so if unraid is not suitable for multiaccess then freenas is better for that? or unraid with the zfs.... so whats good about having multi pools well i know for what i got.. but it seems its a pain if you wanna expand a pool.. so if you have 10tb on one pool but you wanna upgrade it to 20 or 30tb.. its almsot like you gotta create a new pool... as you should have gotten enough hard drives the first time to do say 30tb is that correct? so when you do 256gb of ram when you cache it does it also go straight to the array or does it wait till midnight to offload with the mover? and is that 80 81 setting in the tweaks and tips set for your 256gb... and i might do that strip the data on some hard drives.. whats better when stripping.. more hard drives or like say if you can put it on 2 16s or go to like 6 6tb drives... and would that max the network... id like to get 10gb just so i dont max out my unraid.. i find i loose connection sometimes if i do muiti copies at once if terminaled in and rsync ill find i get connection losses over 1gb connection... but i always learning... learn something everday... as i like to be able to maximise things i appreciate the help so far... cuz it helps me try to better my setups as i working on my archive server i wanna do once a week backup and my backup server to backup each day..

hi i just got this samsung s980 pro 2tb nvme and i working on building an archive server so i put in my WD 2tb black nvme in and i did a copy from WD 2tb to Samsung 2TB and i get locked out for a while my rsync crashes and it closes the window the hard drive light keeps going.. and i can ping but i cant ssh or get access to the gui it takes like 5 min before unraid comes back.. so its like 100% cpu is locked up and i locked out.. there is some warnings and errors i not sure what it means can someone tell me if its nvme either WD or Samsung or if its the cpu and i ran the rsync from nvme to nvme twice... so the first time i got some warnings and then i was locked out and terminal window closed.. then it came back... then i retried again and then locked me out and terminal window closed and it came back after.. then i found the duplicated errors cuz i rysynced it so i realize those .. just dont know why i get locked out and it crashes and the red errors etc oh and when i do get it copying it caps off at 1.2gb/s one is reading and one is writting.. but i not getting like 5gb/s i figured id get from copying from nvme to nvme both pcie 4 nvmes but the rsync when it did copy all said sent 194,329,695,866 bytes received 1,981,297 bytes 818,238,640.69 bytes/sec total size is 1,199,304,972,472 speedup is 6.17 so i not sure what is 6.17 is that the gb/s but yet unraid gui said 1.2gb/s so i not sure if i have things miss configured etc k9-diagnostics-20230621-1056.zip

i re shut down re removed the nvme and re mounted started back up now the nvme that said xfs that i had formated in btrfs says btrfs now.. thats messed i can mount it now... is there any tests i can do to make sure its trully working ok.. with this strange event?

so that didnt work... i shut down re seated booted up i formated in BTFS and it formated it in XFS and then i tried to mount as it was there and it wouldnt mount and gave some errors backupserver-diagnostics-20230616-1549.zip

ok ill do a reboot and reseat it

thats what i mean ... currently my main server has 2 nvmes ones like 1tb and noother is a 500gb 1tb is for VMs and the 500 is for appdata what i wanna do is change it to 2 2TB mirror as a pool so vms and appdata are on the same drive mirrored but in the mean time since Balance Plugin doesnt do pools to transfer files i shoved the 2TB drive in my backup server.. then i wanted to transfer the VMS over the network from the main server and then the appdata... and then add then change it out on the Main server.. and then when i got the 2nd 2TB drive i was going ti mirror so i have redundancy... but currently i cant mount the drive and i got those 2 warnings

ah ok.. for your videos .. how long does it take when you load a video you said you dont use plex.. like for me its pretty quick if its just vlc player on my windows machine... i just find it slow going through plex... its buffering or its just spinning at first.. so i figured well maybe strip it.. to get fastest speed over a 1GB network.. dont have 10g .. and i play through my Xbox Plex... as for the cctv ya i cant get it to work right on shinobi what program you use? i find when i do add a camera on the screen it doesnt stream smoothly its like a video shot ever 5 seconds or 10 and nothing moves smoothly.. but i did change motherboard and ram.. but havent re tested yet.. but it was a headache so i shelved it for a bit ya i never had synology.. i cam from using Windows Home Server 2003 and Home Server 2011 and since windows stopped making it.. i found Unraid which i really like.. i tried freenas but you cant just add hard drives easilly as you go.. you need to buy all the hds you need at first and set up... so i went the unraid and so far i got 5 licenses i use between myself and i bought for my sister.. so your motherboard is a server motherboard then.. if you got 8 32gib ram sticks... and does it do everything you need? i just bought another x570 motherboard making a archive server so it will only come on once a week and just backup files either off my main server or off the backup server... so i just have extra backups of my pictures and home videos and docs etc... so then my 1gb and single spinners should be ok.. if you were to have like 2-4 people watching off plex.. would the 1gb or single spinner still be ok? and is this setup for home use for multiaccess.. thats why i was wondering if i had 2-4 people using plex maybe i needed to strip a pool raid 0 and put the videos on there just to expand the speed. i dunno always looking to improve things 🙂

hi i added a 2TB nvme to my backup server... and i formated to btfs as i plan to add a 2nd in mirror but wanted it setup and files put on it first... but i cant mount it... the mount word is grayed out and there is 2 warrnings in the logs i tried formating then in xfs but still un mountable backupserver-diagnostics-20230616-1444.zip

ok so if nvme is better then spinners in raid0 cache spinner but its still expensive if say you want 3 4tb but then i guess i probably dont use that much.. that was when i was transfering from server to server changing over... but i dont have space for nvmes anymore my board only has 2 spot i use 1 for vms and 1 for the appdata... and then i was thinking of doing one for plex a sata ssd so its seperate... i dunno i just find it slow and i find it slow loading up a video off the spinners... and without the cache directorys i see the spinners have finally spun themselves down now too.. as they were always running and its just basiclly me just accessing the server my plex ony scans when i move a new video to the directory as i ripped most of my dvds/blurays and shoved them in the basement when i add a new one plex sees it and scans then... i was thinking maybe 1 server for media and other server just data files... i have cctv spinner drive i got so far 6 hard drives.. but i couldnt get shinobi to work properly and the video were choppy when i set it up not like my reolink desktop app so i shelved it.. still want to get it working so i not always looking lol but thats part of the server too figured maybe a cctv needs its own computer? or is it good enough on unraid with everything else... then looked at a video card to see if it will speed it up but havent got arround to it now so the array is a parital back of the pool.. so that means example if your media is on the pool it runs faster then say on the array? i was thinking of something like that in my head maybe media would connect faster not so much buffering at start if it was a raid 0 or media was on a 2nd server and the first server runs the plex and connects to the 2nd server for the media like a freenas as i read its faster then unraid.. i just try to think and google. or other peoples builds to try to improve things.. you must have some of those 24 bay hard hot swaps or like those back blaze for all those hard drives.. what kinda motherboard you use too.. as i find my gaming motherboards never have enough pci slots to add extra stuff... or what not... and ya 400 to 200 watts its a big difference.. least in the winter 400 watts can keep your room warm

so for the dirty and background ram settings.. when you test higher.. how do you test for if the performance is getting better? so far the 32gig fits in my needs cuz i dont run all my vms at once..i just kept it down.. but if i using like 60% of the ram already for vms and dockers and if i wanna increase the dirty background i should get more ram then right? so far like with the ssd cache it was fast in past when i had it but after copying more then a 1TB of data it slowed down and then you had to run the mover.. so it fell out of my needs thats when i was orginally building my unraid copying from my old windows home server nas.... so i not sure if 1tb is good enough cache now as i dont always copying to the array.. but maybe... as i wanna do windows backups like spaceinvader video.. and such.. when you say spinners are powered down you mean like powered down in the array.. i used to have that but then they start up randomly or stay on and reason i figured maybe raid 0 cache pool like 2 6tb drives then maybe its faster then a sata ssd. and it be more then 1tb as 4tb still pricy sooo both your pool 1 and 2 are raid 0 then so thats fast copying... what do you copy and for your array is that powered down too.. so you run 2 comps then what i want is like my array to be spun down... and and do windows backups but keep spun down i guess to goto a pool? also i find my plex is slow to load on nvme and i find loading a video slow on plex too.. do you recommend videos be on a pool raid 0 and not on the array i always looking to improve my setup try to speed it up and always learning of other peoples setups that i could tweak mine from what i learn from others setups also should file server be on a seperate computer then the videos... or on one.. so far i got my data on my array.. over 2 14tb drives and the rest is the plex and misc videos and i apprecaite the help talk so far i always learn something new everyday

ah ok so my tips and tweaks is set for 10 background and 20 dirty ratio... so i should set it to 80 and 81? to get the best speed and i seen that before what is a race condition and whats caae? and ya i have 32 gig stick at the moment to run everything on my unraid vms dockers etc.. and when you say transfer data in 24g.. is that 24 gig files? or transfering 24 gig at a time like in a windows copy just selecting a bunch of files that equals around 24gig? and what is the issue with power off.. and data lost? i do run the server on a ups so you dont use spinners... so for your setup so u got 8 drives in 1 pool and 12 disks in a 2nd pool and whats the size of the array in disks. so your 2 pools they are both in raid0 striping.. and is that for caching, to the array? as id like to get best speed.. but ssds are too expensive if you want say like a 4tb ssd and then they wear out.. how many spinners would you need to get to a ssd speed always learning... and should i get 64gig of ram for my main server then? and does the cache on the spinner drives do anything for unraid like help it or unraid doesnt see the cache as exos i have is 256mb and wd are 512mb

ah ok so then my system was working away even though i had everything turned off too i tried before like stop all dockers and vms and it took 2 days before too.. os it was the cache directory plugin? it used to work fine maybe something bugger it up... so youd suggest then i get another of this ecc ram 32gig to make it 64gb and then use the tips and tweaks plugin? and that lets you adjust more ram caching then? and whats a SFF motherboard? so you use an array.. but also use a pool thats in a Raid 0 so you emlimated a cache pool... does that mean you use like instead of a 1 ssd of 1tb that you fill up youd use like say 4 6tb drives in raid 0 so you get more disk space and faster.. and thats your cache drive? as id like to speed up my unraid.... i just didnt like with freenas you needed to buy drives of 3 sets the same size... and least the parity build is done... and cpu ultiziation dropped more too i guess it was just hogging the cpu the cache plugin

ya is anything else slowing things down least it be done in a 7 hours it says not 22 more hours like 2 days like frig lol... how do you do ram caching? or run msot of the stuff in ram isnt that how unraid does it? aand what you mean 1st tier was ssd/nvme and 2nd for main storage? and i appreciate you helping me so far.. as i wouldnt know what was hogging stuff.. as long as cpu usuage isnt full red i figure i doing ok lol and wanted freenas speeds but love the way unraid works 1 drive ata time adding lol so unraid is for me 🙂

i have no idea what another parallel disk read operation is... i know i installed the cache dirctory a few years ago.. but then i had a cache drive back then.. but then i found i was filling it too much 500gb wasnt big enough and 1tb didnt help so i just wrote to the array instead its doing better now and here is the new diagnostic.... do you use cache directory when you have a cache drive?? and the cache on the disks'' these seagates have 256 but my wd have 512mb does unraid utilize them? tardis-diagnostics-20230607-2134.zip

uninstall which plugin the cache plugin?? and what else? is there any other plugins causing issues? and here is me flipping it back its just reading randomy i guess idling

so how do i run the test now? to see throughput

how do i check the counter build up not sure how to do any of that i know how to pause lol and reason i was asking about the ram i wanted to know if the ecc ram is making it run low 30mbs and if i had desktop ram it make it run at 250mbs is basiclly what i asking but how do i do that test?

its even gone in the 30mb/s its got 22 hours to go really it should have been done by now... anyone have any tools to tell me whats wrong

ah well thats why i was asking why i getting an error with preclear in it wanted to know what caused it no idea thats my unraid server ip... and thats the page to the docker page all i know i still dealing with my parity is going to take 2 days and damn postfinds lol when i thought i solved all the server issues by upgrading i find another issue lol