Unraid was running fine for me on the 8GB (2x4GB) of RAM I had in there but I figured I'd replace with 16GB (2x8GB). Replaced the RAM and then rebooted. I have always ran Unraid headless but this time I happened to have a monitor hooked up so I could check to make sure that no XMP or any overclocking was set for the new RAM. After confirming that and running memtest (passed for 5+ hours) I booted and noticed that it said something about installing the nvidia open source driver? I just pressed enter and moved on and didn't think about it. 

I had already had an nvidia card installed and plugin installed with the "latest branch" nvidia driver running fine with no issues so was surprised to see the reference to the open source driver install popping up. 

Since then I keep getting CPU spiking. Before, since I only run a plex server on this Unraid server and nothing else, I would never see more than 1 or 2% activity unless i was actively watching a plex stream. Now, it is constantly fluctuating CPU and spiking. When I run the top cmd I see that two processes are causing it, but priimarily one: nv_open_q 

 

Here is what I have tried to resolve this:

1. Uninstalled and reinstalled the nvidia driver (countless times, rebooting after each install).

2. Removed the 2x4GB of RAM from slots A2 and A4 where they always were before when it was running fine, and moved the new 2x8GB into those slots.

 

Attaching diagnostics. Any help is appreciated. Only other thing I can think to try is to remove the new RAM and go back to the old RAM but I can't see how that would fix this. I think I need to remove the nv_open_q  somehow but not sure how. Uninstalling the nvidia driver hasn't accomplished that.

unraid-diagnostics-20241116-0938.zip

 

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you may also need to review:
 

seeing as this is the plex docker