February 4, 20251 yr I had a really cheap 4 sata addon card in my unraid. I decided to upgrade to a Lsi Logic 179356 Controller Card 05-25703-00 9305-16i 16-port Sas 12gb/s Pci-express 3.0. Got everything back up and running fine, but now it feels like it is lagging and does not run the docker containers well. CPU is often hitting 100% on multiple cores. I did change some other settings after the upgrade like setting drives not in use to go to standby and Cache to back up to array. tower-diagnostics-20250204-1044.zip
February 4, 20251 yr Community Expert 7 minutes ago, Golagres said: Cache to back up to array What do you mean by this?
February 4, 20251 yr Community Expert Your Docker/VM related shares (appdata, domains, system) have files on the array, in fact, they are configured to be moved to the array. Ideally these shares would have all files on pool such as cache with nothing on the array, so Dockers/VMs will perform better, and so array disks can spin down since these files are always open.
February 4, 20251 yr Author Primary for all those locations are on the cache. Secondary is set to the array. I thought they only updated on Secondary when the mover is invoked. So setting them only on the cache would prevent the array from slowing them down?
February 5, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution The correct settings for those shares would be Primary:cache; Secondary:array; Move action:array->cache. That would get them moved to cache. But, nothing can move open files, so you have to disable Docker and VM Manager in Settings before running mover Try that, wait for Mover to complete, then Post new diagnostics.
February 6, 20251 yr Author It took a lot longer than I thought it would to finish running. The Mover moved over 50g of data. That seems to fix the excessive cpu demand. I have just left it on the Primary cache after it finished for now as I keep a monitor on it. I will re-setup the back up onto the array later. Thanks for the help. tower-diagnostics-20250206-0934.zip
February 6, 20251 yr Community Expert Your appdata share still has files/folders on the array. In fact, it doesn't look like you followed my instructions for that share. So, try again. On 2/4/2025 at 9:26 PM, trurl said: The correct settings for those shares would be Primary:cache; Secondary:array; Move action:array->cache. That would get them moved to cache. But, nothing can move open files, so you have to disable Docker and VM Manager in Settings before running mover Try that, wait for Mover to complete, then Post new diagnostics.
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