I intermittentlyl have this problem. It will have pauses, and sometimes play very slow, with no audio. thten other times it will play fine. I have not yet paid attention to the types of movies that is giving me problem, but most I play recently are Blue Ray type.

 

I just checked on the main page and see this:

 

 

parity ST31500341AS_9VS2FE7A 27°C 1,465,138,552 - 5,956,131 23,582 0

disk1 WDC_WD10EACS-00Z_WD-WCASJ1473514 26°C 976,762,552 4,643,064 3,525,402 3,083 0

disk2 WDC_WD10EACS-00Z_WD-WCASJ1515762 26°C 976,762,552 151,552 3,242,239 5,118 0

disk3 WDC_WD10EACS-00Z_WD-WCASJ1471235 26°C 976,762,552 72         3,562,529 2,377 0

disk4 WDC_WD1002FBYS-0_WD-WMATV7233794 28°C 976,762,552 558,913,680 4,428,638 13,216 0

 

Could that low disk space on a couple of the drives be a problem?

 

This is my disk settings:

 

Default spin down delay: 1 hour

Force NCQ disabled: YES

Enable spinup groups: YES

Tunable (md_num_stripes): default

Tunable (md_write_limit): default

Tunable (md_sync_window): default

 

This is my Share Settings for the Movies Share:

 

Share name: Movies

Comments:

Allocation method:   High Water

Min. free space: 0

Split level:

Included disk(s):

Excluded disk(s):

Export (SMB): read/write

Export (NFS):

 

 

Thanks for your thoughts.

 

 

 

Please post a syslog.  For just reading, I don't believe that low free space would be any problem.  For writing it certainly can.

I'll do some research and figure out how to get teh syslog, and post it.

 

FYI...I did just do a reboot of the system, and for the moment anyway, it is playing a movie well.

 

[EDIT]

Found info in the WIKI about the syslog, but it said to capture before rebooting when having problems. So, I will hold off for a while, and when this happens again, I'll capture the syslog and post.

 

 

Great.  You might also want to install the Powerdown script, as it will automatically save a copy of your syslog to your flash drive on every power down (normally the syslog is lost when you powerdown or reboot).  It can be very helpful in troubleshooting intermittent problems.