March 22, 201214 yr So I have virtualbox installed and am running a virtual windows xpmachine off of the cache drive. The installation has sabnzbd,sickbeard,coucpotato and plex media server. The system seems to work ok for a little while but then gets painfully slow. Extracting and copying downloads in sabnzbd literally takes hours per show. These are copying from the virtual machine image on cache drive to the main array. The Host macihne is 4 core q6600 with 4gb ram. I have dedicated 2gig to the virtual machine and all 4 cores (tried 1 and 2 cores too). I have changed the defauly network card to the 1000mbps card. Another strange thing is that downloads are sometimes showing as coming down at 2 Megabytes per second which is 4 times faster than my dsl can handle. I would really like to get this running well as i dont like having multiple pc's on 24/7. Hope someone can shed some light!
March 22, 201214 yr If sabnzbd is installed on unRAID, why are the shows being extracted and copied from the virtual machine to the array? I don't have a VM, but I do have sabnzbd, sickbeard, and couchpotato running on unRAID, and sabnzbd is set to extract to the cache drive, and then mover takes care of putting the files on the array at its scheduled time. Are you also running sabnzbd, sickbeard and couchpotato on the cache drive?
March 22, 201214 yr Author I used to run these programs in unraid but now run them all in a virtual machine in virtualbox on top of unraid. I want to keep the main unraid install as simple as possible.
March 22, 201214 yr Author just did a test now and it took nearly 1 minute to copy 35 megabytes... so like 500KB a sec....
March 22, 201214 yr I used to run these programs in unraid but now run them all in a virtual machine in virtualbox on top of unraid. I want to keep the main unraid install as simple as possible. And yet you installed virtualbox on top of unRAID. I would argue that installing virtualbox is a bigger impact than installing SABnzbd, SickBeard, and CouchPotato separately.
March 22, 201214 yr Author I like the idea of having a virtual machine so that I can install whatever I like. I have had all those programs running seperately but always had issues and it was far from stable.
March 22, 201214 yr You could try installing Virtual box on a SNAP drive, I know it's another disk, but it may resolve your issue.
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