What files are used by the Unraid UI? | What files to put on SSD storage?

[Pstark]

I added another SSD pool with the intention of putting whatever files the Unraid webUI uses on it to make the webUI pages as fast as possible. What files can I put on the new SSD pool to accomplish this? I'm only aware of the system share but if there are any other files, please let me know?

[apandey]

Unraid runs completely out of memory for the most part, the basic system including the UI are loaded from the image on usb into RAM during boot. There isn't much on USB that is accessed post boot. There is absolutely nothing on your shares and data drives that is used by unraid system

 

System shares is used for docker images and VM config files. See https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Shares#Default_Shares

 

Perhaps better to discuss what you are finding slow and try to diagnose why it may be so instead

Edited April 22, 2023 by apandey

[Pstark]

 

6 minutes ago, apandey said:

Unraid runs completely out of memory for the most part, the basic system including the UI are loaded from the image on usb into RAM during boot. There isn't much on USB that is accessed post boot. There is absolutely nothing on your shares and data drives that is used by unraid system

 

Perhaps better to discuss what you are finding slow and try to diagnose why it may be so instead

The thing is, there isn't a problem with it being "slow". I was just attempting to see if I could make it "faster" when clicking different tabs and such. The slowest is when I click the docker tab. Again its not a problem per-say but I didn't know if I could move what resource to SSD based storage to make it load a bit snappier.

[apandey]

3 minutes ago, Pstark said:

slowest is when I click the docker tab

The time isn't spent loading files from media, but rather communicating with docker service and enumerating out all the details for each container you are running 

 

The plugins tab is even slower, because it also seems to try and work out if any of the plugins have updates available

[Pstark]

19 minutes ago, apandey said:

The time isn't spent loading files from media, but rather communicating with docker service and enumerating out all the details for each container you are running 

 

The plugins tab is even slower, because it also seems to try and work out if any of the plugins have updates available

Yeah I forgot about that tab. It is indeed even slower.

[EDACerton]

57 minutes ago, Pstark said:

 

Again it’s not a problem per-say but I didn't know if I could move what resource to SSD based storage to make it load a bit snappier.

The OS runs out of RAM, so there’s not much that can be done to put it in faster storage 😃

 

As for Docker, I’d just make certain that your docker.img file is on SSD. 

[MrGrey]

4 hours ago, Pstark said:

I added another SSD pool with the intention of putting whatever files the Unraid webUI uses on it to make the webUI pages as fast as possible.

 

As EDACerton said, the OS runs from RAM. I suspect a fast CPU and, probably more, a fast GPU would make things run faster (visually), but a faster HDD isn't going to do anything to speed up the GUI. Faster Internet (2.5G?) might help some?

 

Just my two cents.

 

MrGrey.