Two problems I hope that can be sorted.

 

First is randomly I will get the error;

 

Disabling IRQ #16

 

Once I get that, everything goes to shit, can not access the webpage, can telnet in, but shutdown -r now just ends up hanging and I have to engage a manual reboot.

 

Second is how can i set the mover to init move every 10 minutes?

 

Please tell me what logs and so forth I need to provide.

 

Thanks

Can somebody help me please?

Can somebody help me please?

 

We need a syslog, complete hardware specs, and more information.

 

There is a troubleshooting link in my sig on how to capture the syslog.

Motherboard is GA-Z68A-D3H-B3

2x 2GB Kingston RAM

Core i3 CPU

2 x Adaptec RAID 1430SA

1 x HighPoint Rocket 620

1 x Patriot Xporter 8GB Rage USB

3TB WDC_WD30EZRS-00J99B0 for my parity drive.

64GB OCZ-AGILITY3 for my cache drive

Seagate 2TB (ST32000542AS) for my other drives.

 

I am currently using all my onboard sata and have used 1 sata on the Adaptec RAID so far.

 

Adaptec RAID is set to JBOD

syslog.txt

Oh and with the mover script, as far as I understand if i use the following setting;

 

5 * * * *

 

Does this mean it will initiate the mover script every 5 minutes?

 

If it does, it means its also not working then, as it is not moving things automatically.

Oh and with the mover script, as far as I understand if i use the following setting;

 

5 * * * *

 

Does this mean it will initiate the mover script every 5 minutes?

 

If it does, it means its also not working then, as it is not moving things automatically.

No, it would run once an hour at 5 minutes past every hour

 

You want instead:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * *

or, a shorthand method for that is:

*/5 * * * *

 

Either should work.  The second is easier to type.

 

Joe L.

Excellent, thanks for that Joe

 

All working properly now in that regard.

Just letting people know that I have given up on my unraid server.

 

I had purchased the 21 drive version and so far I have been less than happy with the results.

 

The server randomly locks up.

 

Performance has been less than stellar, I have the very best SSD that money can buy as my cached drive and it is very slow.

 

Cache even tho set up correctly (thanks Joe) just does not execute by itself anymore, it did for a while, but then the software locked up and I had to reboot and it stopped working after that.

 

Adding a new drive to the array is the biggest hassle, even with the precache script, currently have 7 drives in and it was an uphill battle getting two more in, every time I try, software locks up.

 

I came from using 2 drobo pro's, I only wished that the unraid software was as simple to use.

 

I now move on to a Synology DS2411+

 

Thanks for the people that have helped me.

 

 

Just letting people know that I have given up on my unraid server.

 

I had purchased the 21 drive version and so far I have been less than happy with the results.

 

The server randomly locks up.

 

Performance has been less than stellar, I have the very best SSD that money can buy as my cached drive and it is very slow.

 

Cache even tho set up correctly (thanks Joe) just does not execute by itself anymore, it did for a while, but then the software locked up and I had to reboot and it stopped working after that.

 

Adding a new drive to the array is the biggest hassle, even with the precache script, currently have 7 drives in and it was an uphill battle getting two more in, every time I try, software locks up.

 

I came from using 2 drobo pro's, I only wished that the unraid software was as simple to use.

 

I now move on to a Synology DS2411+

 

Thanks for the people that have helped me.

 

 

 

So you moved onto something different because you had mostly hardware issues correct?

 

I understand the frustration with it not being as idiot proof as something like a drobo, but stock unRAID is not exactly difficult to use.  Once you try to get into the addon's is when it can get more difficult.

 

 

The mover timing things was easy enough to fix (Joe L. did so).  The Disabling IRQ is a hardware thing, that may have been fixed by a BIOS update. 

Yer but the mover thing wasn't fixed at the end, it seems to have undone itself, and I just don't understand why.

 

Hey Id like to make my intensions clear, I'm leaving this message so that the project will have a better understanding why I've abandoned it for now, maybe put it to use.

 

I have loved the idea of unraid, but there were a few things that nagged me, like how in windows 7, when I mapped the unraid shared folder, rather than show it in details view, like I have everything else, it shows it as tho each folder were its own drive, putting document above the folders, things like that.

 

Maybe I just want the ease of the drobo pro, with the sharing power of the unraid.

 

Maybe it is the hardware I chose, but its hard to find a motherboard that supports 3 x pci-e 4 slots (that run at full speed)

 

I will try a bios upgrade, see if that does anything to help an post my results back to help anyone in the future.

It looks like we missed the chance to help you fix this, but I have to say this one thread doesn't show much resolve. Adding drives won't fix anything. Random lockups mean you have something fundamentally wrong and the "IRQ Disabled" messages were your clue. More drives will only makes it harder to isolate the problems and will compound any effects.

 

From your syslog, IRQ 16 is being used by SATA and Ethernet. The effects on performance from of it being disabled would be absolutely terrible and could seem like lockups or even lead to crashes and panics (a real lockup) (you'd probably see stack traces at the console). Systems these days can usually handle just about any traffic for an interrupt but sometimes things don't cooperate. Could be a driver bug, bad interrupt routing (probably in the BIOS), or a hardware failure. Whatever, it's causing interrupts to arrive faster than they can be serviced, they aren't being serviced (driver crash), or they're just not being cleared properly (bug). The next steps would be to isolate, then fix or work around.

 

If you're still interested in giving it a try (and making use of that license) we can probably help.

I don't want to sound like an ass, but if you had done any pre-reading on the performance of unRAID then you would have known what transfer speeds to expect. Seeing you try a SSD cache drive with 5 minute moving makes me believe you are mis-applying this system. unRAID's main purpose is to be a media server, not be a business class or high-speed server. I'm not sure what your expected use is, but I just do a move to the server while I'm doing something else and the speed is the speed.

 

Your system won't work if you expect to constantly transfer to the cache and then have each completed file moved to the array immediately keeping the cache empty. The cache will simply fill-up since the moves from cache to array will be at least 2X slower than writing to the cache.

 

At any rate, you do have a hardware issue that must be resolved. Unfortunately, unRAID is based on Linux and sometimes the hardware and OS don't play well together. Sometimes, motherboards are crappy and create conflicts.

 

It does seem the network and a SATA expansion card are using the same interrupt. Did you try turning off all unneccessary onboard items to see if that might shift the IRQ's around?

 

And as a final note, you should expect issues using any of the 5.0b series. I believe b9 and b10 both suffer from an issue where the cache moving schedule does not stick after a reboot. Which is probably why you believe "it seems to have undone itself". This is why they are called beta releases and why you need to follow the beta release thread when you are using them.

 

Peter

 

Thanks for your feedback.

 

I will be keeping my license and using unraid... but just not now, Ill wait till the software is more mature and works correctly on modern hardware.