Spin-Down problem / Drive-State is reported wrong

[KillerCookie]

Hi,

 

i´m running unRAID 6.0.1 and since some time (i don´t exactly remeber when it started) my server doesn´t go to sleep anymore. I use the "Dynamix S3 Sleep" plugin.

 

I took a look at the plugins logfile an it said "Disk activity on going: sdd" (sdd is my parity disk). Then i opened the unRAID GUI and it reported that alle drives are spun-down. Actually this is wrong because i can hear the drive spinning. This situation never changes and my server is awake for days. But if i hit the Spin-Up button in the GUI my drives my drives are spinning down after the treshold of 15 minutes an the server is going to sleep too.

 

What is happening? Is unRAID somehow reporting the actual state of the drives wrong? I would really appreciate some help.

 

[dgaschk]

Ask the plugin author in the plugin thread.

[KillerCookie]

It doesn´t seem to be a plugin related issue because after wake up from sleep the unRAID is reporting the disks as "Spun Down" this is false. Even if i´m browsing some directory on the disks unRAID still means "Spun Down". Where does the WebGUI fetches this data from? To it looks like something isn´t properly refreshed after wake up.

[BRiT]

Unraid doesnt officially support sleep. This is a known issue where you have to either manually spin up or down all drives from the ui to have the status resynced.

[bonienl]

To spin up all disks after wake-up, you can put the following in the Custom commands after wake-up field:

for i in {1..23}; do
  [[ -d /mnt/disk$i ]] && /usr/local/sbin/mdcmd spinup $i
done

 

[KillerCookie]

Thanks for the hint bonienl, but that didn´t solve the problem completely as it doesn´t spin up my parity drive.

 

I now found a solution which does the trick for me:

 

Call the spinup-function of the WebGUI after wakeup.

/usr/bin/wget  -q  -O  -  localhost/update.htm?cmdSpinupAll=true >/dev/null

 

Maybe i could have used the spinup-groups feature to solve the problem but i didn´t investigate that.

 

I just wanted to share my solution and thank all the posters for their feedback.

[bonienl]

Excellent solution

[Marv]

Hi,

 

I think I have a similar problem:

 

I use the Dynamix S3 Sleep plugin aswell on unraid 6.1.6 and the execute function works, but somehow only for the first time

these are my settings:

- Wait for array inactivity: yes

- Extra delay after array inactivity: 15

- Wait for network inactivity: no

- Wait for user login inactivity: local

- Set WOL options before sleep: g

 

when the drives are in standby after 15 more minutes the server goes to s3 state.

But the next time when the server wakes up the drives are still in standby and the server only goes to sleep again when I first spin up the drives.

 

So where do I have to put the command lines described above to spin up my drives after wake up? I am very new to unraid and have no idea.

 

Another problem I have is that when i Telnet my server with "echo 3 >/proc/acpi/sleep"  (this command is described in the wiki of the plugin)

it returns "-bash: /proc/acpi/sleep: No such file or directory"

What does this mean?

 

Hope someone can clear me up.

 

Thank you!

[itimpi]

Another problem I have is that when i Telnet my server with "echo 3 >/proc/acpi/sleep"  (this command is described in the wiki of the plugin)

it returns "-bash: /proc/acpi/sleep: No such file or directory"

What does this mean?

are you sure you typed the command correctly?  I would have expected the file to be created if it did not already exist.

[Marv]

yes I tried again and the typing was correct.

Any idea how I can solve this problem?

[bonienl]

yes I tried again and the typing was correct.

Any idea how I can solve this problem?

 

Well, that command isn't used anymore, dates back from the linux 2.6 kernel versions. Some googling could have helped you!

 

You need to use:

echo -n mem >/sys/power/state

 

Ps. When you click the Sleep button, it will do the exact command immediately.

[Marv]

okay, thank you its working.

 

But where do I have to put the command to call the spinup function?

 

/usr/bin/wget  -q  -O  -  localhost/update.htm?cmdSpinupAll=true >/dev/null

 

Can I just Telnet it or do I have to change some config file on my flash drive manually?

 

I'm a complete noob, sorry...

 

Happy new year btw

[bonienl]

But where do I have to put the command to call the spinup function?

 

/usr/bin/wget  -q  -O  -  localhost/update.htm?cmdSpinupAll=Spin%20Up >/dev/null

 

Go to the settings page of the S3-sleep function and copy & paste the command above (I've modified it a little) into the box "Custom commands after wake-up". Then press Apply.

[Marv]

thanks bonienl, everything is working now

Just to unterstand, what's the difference between the original command line and yours?

[bonienl]

thanks bonienl, everything is working now

Just to unterstand, what's the difference between the original command line and yours?

 

The value Spin%20Up is what unRAID version 6 expects to see.