mover is trying to move movies from a cache drive. the cache drive is pretty full - has about 70GB left. The mover is moving files to disk 4 on my drive which has about 40 GB left on it and it keeps filling it till there's 0 space... and then after a while the drive will get  like 6GB back and then it'll fill it again. I've tried stopping the array and restarting. my movie share has a min free space of 80GB set and I've even tried to add disk 4 to excluded but it didn't fix the issue. 

media-diagnostics-20241205-1121.zip

It looks like your Movies share has a split level of 1 which is extremely constraining and is probably the cause of your symptoms.

 

Note that in the event of there being contention between the various settings relating to  deciding where a file should go then Split Level always wins.

22 minutes ago, itimpi said:

It looks like your Movies share has a split level of 1 which is extremely constraining and is probably the cause of your symptoms.

 

Note that in the event of there being contention between the various settings relating to  deciding where a file should go then Split Level always wins.

hmm I'll try to change it. ok to let unraid decide or do you think split level 2 would be better? ( have file set in standard Movie share> movie folder> movie file   format). Typically there's just a single file in each movie folder

1 hour ago, flimflamman said:

( have file set in standard Movie share> movie folder> movie file   format). Typically there's just a single file in each movie folder

 

It has been a long, long time since I looked at split levels but I am wondering why you are even bothering with it.  I am assuming that you want the movie and its folder on the same disk.   Well, that will happen automatically.  You should have set the  Minimum free space:  parameter for the share to be about 25% larger than the maximum size file you expect to save there.  Even if there is more than one file in the  movie folder, it only takes a modern HD about 5-6 seconds to start sending data from a cold start.  (This parameter was added back when folks were saving DVD's in the folder-and-file format with 3-to-6 .VOB files making up a complete movie on 100-500 GB disks. These .VOB files are all exactly the same size (1,073,739,776 bytes) and must be seamlessly streamed as the break between files can happen in the middle of a spoken word!)  Plus, with the size of HD's today compared to even HD movie files, the odds of files being split are very, very small.