Spinning Up disks


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Hi

 

My unraid seems to be idle, I see in the syslog spin down command, but then I see read SMART entries and array awakes. 

 

May 31 21:15:52 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sde
May 31 21:15:52 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdf
May 31 21:16:24 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdg
May 31 21:16:33 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdi
May 31 21:16:43 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdj
May 31 21:18:49 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdb
May 31 21:18:49 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdc
May 31 21:19:22 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdd
May 31 21:19:22 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sde
May 31 21:19:22 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdf
May 31 21:19:30 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdg
May 31 21:19:41 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdi
May 31 21:19:51 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdj
May 31 21:26:30 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdh
May 31 21:29:39 Vault emhttpd: read SMART

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9 hours ago, Squid said:

dynamix.cache.dirs.plg - 2020.08.03

There's something in the support thread about not having it scan user shares (only disk shares) to prevent disk spinups incurring.

 

Did not help:

 

Jun 1 08:54:50 Vault cache_dirs: Stopping cache_dirs process 10494
Jun 1 08:54:51 Vault cache_dirs: cache_dirs service rc.cachedirs: Stopped
Jun 1 08:59:32 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdf
Jun 1 08:59:43 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdh
Jun 1 08:59:54 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdj
Jun 1 09:02:41 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdf
Jun 1 09:02:52 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdh
Jun 1 09:03:02 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdj
Jun 1 09:21:31 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdb
Jun 1 09:21:31 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdc
Jun 1 09:21:53 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdd
Jun 1 09:21:53 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sde
Jun 1 09:22:14 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdg
Jun 1 09:22:22 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdi
Jun 1 09:24:51 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdb
Jun 1 09:24:51 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdc
Jun 1 09:25:12 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdd
Jun 1 09:25:12 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sde
Jun 1 09:25:21 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdg
Jun 1 09:25:31 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdi
Jun 1 09:32:32 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdf
Jun 1 09:32:43 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdh
Jun 1 09:32:54 Vault emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdj
Jun 1 09:35:42 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdf
Jun 1 09:35:52 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdh
Jun 1 09:36:03 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdj

 

 

For some reason, file activity does not work for me. When I click on 'start', the service stays in 'Stopped' status

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I don't think this is folder caching.

-- I disabled it, did not help

- re-enabled, and enabled logs -- don't see the cache task running

 

but I do see this again

 

Jun 1 14:32:52 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdb
Jun 1 14:32:52 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdc
Jun 1 14:33:24 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdd
Jun 1 14:33:24 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sde
Jun 1 14:33:24 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdf
Jun 1 14:33:35 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdh
Jun 1 14:33:45 Vault emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sdj

 

disks are spinning down.. and then immediately spinning up.

 

what is emhttpd? the GUI? Why does it access SMART? Does it spin up the disk?

 

 

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