Cpt. Chaz

has anyone else had any trouble seeding torrents using nordvpn with this container? i have no issues downloading, but for whatever reason my seeds will only go for kb/s for roughly a minute or less, if at all. i have all the original files sitting in completed download folder just fine. webui not reporting any errors. I do have upnp enabled in my apple router.

@GeekMajic use /dev/shm/ instead of /tmp/ This is allocated to use only 50% of available ram as a safeguard.

Couldn't stop thinking about this, so I tested it. Radarr V3 (aphrodite) does do a media file analysis unlike V2. Upgrading would solve the naming / upgrade issue. I'm still testing V3 alongside V2 before i fully commit because i've heard it's still buggy, but tbh so far it's working surprisingly well for me.

Radarr and Sonarr handle media files differently. Sonarr actually inspects the files and determines whether it’s x264 or x265. Radarr (at least V2) does not. It’s imperative to have radarr rename the files (not folders) with the media tag like so: {Movie Title} ({Release Year}) -{Quality Title}-{Mediainfo Videocodec} this will output a (Plex compatible) file name like: Batman (1992) -Bluray-1080p-x265 so if you don’t have this tag set but you have a x265 profile, it will re download the file from a source with a x265 tag if it senses a file change ie from unmanic. so add the file tag under the radarr settings. Then you’ll need to rename all the movies in your library to apply the naming scheme, which can be done with radarr or filebot. Then, when unmanic converts “Batman (1992) -Bluray-1080p-x264” to x265, you’ll need to manually change it to Batman (1992) -Bluray-1080p-x265 radarr will then see it meets the quality profile and won’t attempt to redownload (assuming other quality profile criteria is met). PS radarr V3 May have file analysis functionality which would render this whole exercise moot. Might also be worth looking into.

Ah. Crap. I fiddled with it for a while back when I was trying to use the Mac Pro for unraid, but never could get there with it. Tried 6.7.2. Too bad 6.8 didn’t get it. Wonder if the RC with the new Linux kernel would be worth a shot? 6.8rc7 or whatever it was (I’d have to go back and look unless someone knows off hand)

Are you guys trying this with 6.8?

@jonathanm i think josh.5 may be clocked out for a few months, per this post here.

Wanted to share what i think is another awesome way of utilizing Unmanic. I don't mean to hijack the thread here, but this certainly seems like a good place to share with fellow unmanic users. It requires two different unraid servers, so if you only have one, I don't see this being applicable for you. But essentially, i've "found" a way to use two instances of unmanic on one library. i'll just give some bullet points, if anyone is actually interested in details feel free to ask any questions. For my setup, i have an unraid server at "home", and one at a separate location at my "office", so they do not share a LAN. Unraid 6.8 has introduced support for wireguard VPN and that's what makes this all possible. I won't go into the details of setting that up, but for anyone that missed that intro look here for setup info. "home" server is where all my media server content is housed, and where my primary unmanic instance has been running the past few months. "office" server is a way over-powered ryzen 2700 file server. Reference: "home" = 192.168.1.121 "office" = 192.168.0.121 Setup "home" wireguard VPN tunnel and add "office" as a Lan to Lan peer with an active wireguard connection, use the unassigned devices plugin to add remote smb path on "office" server pointing to path "192.168.1.121/media" (this is the plex media library location on "home") and mount the path. install unmanic docker on "office". now the library paths will look something like this: /library/movies -> /mnt/disks/192.168.1.121_media/Plex/Movies/ /library/tv shows -> *intentionally left blank, see explanation below* change access mode for both paths to "RW/Slave" As i mentioned earlier in the thread here, i've changed my cache directory to use ram instead of disk so now it's either /tmp or /dev/shm/ if you go this route apply the settings and let the container install. access gui, and make sure tv path is left empty The reason i've not mapped the tv path is because i don't want the containers fighting over the same files. So doing this, i've got "home" converting TV shows, and "office" remotely converting Movies. your own configuration may vary here, but it's important not to point both containers at the same media folders simultaneously. I see this causing problems. So far, i'm 24 hours into this experiment, "home" wireguard is showing 59.9gb up and and 45.9gb down, with 22 successful movie conversions. i've not had a single file failure yet, and i've just cut my overall library conversion time (more or less) in half. I've got my dual xeon server at home and my ryzen 2700 8-core both crunching away as we speak. Of course i have cpu pinning and prioritization in place on both servers. hopefully somebody can find this useful. YMMV. good luck!

yeah, that's what i'm going for. otherwise, it leaves countless empty folders behind that have to be cleared out. It also appears that these folders aren't integral to the log/history, so they serve no purpose that i can see.

Sure yeah - in the container settings under “encoding cache directory”. The docker mapping is /tmp/unmanic, the host mapping is the file path right above it. Different people map it to different places, that’s what piqued my curiosity about mapping it to ram so instead of disk leaving the empty folders. Ram mapping will clear it out.

Someone else earlier on in this thread mentioned it so I tried it and it’s worked awesome for me. using “--cpu-shares=2” in the docker’s extra parameters.

Awesome! Glad it worked, I got to thinking about it at first, not knowing if it would even work, but also not knowing why it wouldn’t. Seems good so far for me too. It always bugged me the empty folders left behind...

I un-prioritized core usage in the dockers extra parameters, is that what you’re talking about? also, /dev/shm is also allocated to just 50% of your total ram, a handy safeguard. But I’ve also got 192gb of ram in the arsenal, so shouldn’t be a problem for me either way. But for folks with less, I’d definitely use that over /tmp

Good to know! I’m utilizing 3 workers for tv episodes at the moment, no where near 25gb file sizes so I should be in good shape there. Once I get to the movies I may keep a closer eye on it.

/dev/shm is allocated to only use 50% of ram, whereas /tmp has no limit. Wasn’t sure what to expect for ram consumption trying this out, so erred on the side of caution. the history part had not occurred to me tho. I pretty much leave the container running 24/7, except for updates, etc. I’m not overly concerned with long history, but the next time I restart the docker I’ll report back.

Has anybody tried setting /tmp directory to /dev/shm? I wouldn't advise if you're low on ram, but so far i'm not experiencing any performance issues and it's been great for keeping my file system clean.

A failed conversion trying to go from a 2160 remux HEVC mkv to 2160 HEVC mp4. Ffmpeg log here.

I’m getting that same message even on every successful completion of mine. 3000+ files so far showing that, all but 34 successful.

hi guys. i'm trying to install unraid on a mid 2012 unraid mac pro. using refind bootloader just for ease of use. whenever i start the unraid boot, it hangs when loading bzroot. i've tried going through the steps outlined here http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=USB_Flash_Drive_Preparation to update the USB drive with the latest version of syslinux (6.03), but unsure of how to use the -ma option on a mac. just swapping the old syslinux file for the new one made no difference. everyone else seems to be using this w/ windows. All of this is in a quest to get unraid on the mac pro as mentioned earlier. so if i'm barking up the wrong tree here, i'm open for any advice. thanks! Post edit: i'm also getting the following error during boot failure: end kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) tried different unraid versions, tried loading the usb manually with .zip instead of the creator, tried every usb port on the machine... nada

On the web UI main screen, down at the bottom, it should show the version.

May be a little off topic, but i'm not sure where else to post this... hoping since my original unmanic instance is running on unraid, that'll buy me a little grace... i've got an imac on the same LAN as my unraid. i keep the media library and cache directory in unraid. wanting to speed up library process time, i setup unmanic in docker on my mac, so i can use its processor too. got the install done, made it to the web ui, but can't figure out how to set the library and cache directories from unmanic on the mac to the unraid library and cache. was thinking maybe i could bash into the container and set /library path and /cache path, but don't know enough about docker to do this, especially for remote file paths. anytime i try putting in some variable of [unraid volume]/media/plex/tv shows in the web ui's library field, i get "WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)" in the log and no change in the UI. Can anyone help me out?

Been running this way for a couple days - makes a huge difference!

so do you leave any cpu pins in place when you're using this prioritization? or just give unmanic full cpu access with low priority and let her rip?

Why don’t you pin it down?

i keep plex on a dedicated machine separate from unraid, but that's a brilliant alternative!