My unRaid 6.12.13 has been up for some months now and i rarely use it for anything else but these three dockers containers:

- pi-hole

- jellyfin (tried other containers)

- homeassistant

 

Even before having this issue i only had jellyfin and nothing else. So i've concluded that it must be here some issue is. So what's the issue then, well, when streaming any content that needs to be transcoded by ffmpeg to a target it seems to choke up at some point. It can be randomly at night, in the afternoon and sometimes even when it is being unused.

 

So my first conclusion was that it must be some form of scheduled task that goes wrong... right? But then again, the tasks takes less than 2 minutes to complete and most of the time I've been awake for it to happen, the server seems usable.

 

Since this randomly happen I suppose it could be a hardware issue as well as a software issue, but I would like to know more about the error.

So when I come back after some time the system can be locked like this:

 

And there's no other way to stop it from doing this than to simply do a hard reboot the whole server.

tower-diagnostics-20241111-1852.zip

Edited November 11, 20241 yr by papaHoff

Does it go back to normal after a few seconds if you stop the docker service?

No, never, it becomes completely impossible to use.

 

It was just now i added the "-m 28G" to limit the amount of RAM it uses, since when it locks down,

I also enabled SSH to be able to go in here and check while it happens.

 

Looking at it right now, it is doing some background tasks and directly shoot up to

 

It looks as if it is doing some form of library scan, it is using ffprobe a lot and simultaneously.

Edited November 11, 20241 yr by papaHoff

You may need to try and identify the container that is causing it.

Yeah, that won't be hard, Jellyfin is the only active docker and VM at the moment.