I just bought an Unraid licence, a new SSD and HDD and decided it wouldnt hurt to do a preclear. 

 

So.. yesterday i installed the Preclear plugin and the preclear_disk.sh script. I started it via the webinterface on a SSD and a HDD, and the Main page shows the activity. However, after a few hours i came back and found that the GUI is no longer updating.

 

12 hours later, still no change:

• The preclear menu page does not show any unassigned disks. (this is OK, i think?)
  
• The Main page does show two disks preclearing, but its still not updating. One preclear was at 9% and the other at 26%, in different stages but not quite sure which. They also show a MB/s and ETA time, which also are frozen.
  
• The Stats shows 35% sustained CPU usage but no (!) disk activity. (screenshot attached)
  
• The `top` command shows two processes `dd` with 100% cpu usage each.
  
• Both disks where spun down.
  

 

Hoping this would help, i just stopped the array, and started it again. Nothing changed, except that the drives are no longer listed on the Main page or Dashboard page. The Tools > Devices also no longer show them as a SCSI device.

 

I only ran one preclear cycle, and i expected the 500GB SSD to be done by now. The 6TB HDD wil take longer ofcourse. The machine is a i7 920 (4 core).

 

Questions:

[*]Is there any way to see the actual preclear progress? I'd like to know the % or ETA.

Running

pkill -USR1 -n -x dd

outputs nothing.

[*]Should i just cancel the preclear, and try it again? How?

Or just reboot? I'd like to get on and use this SSD to replace my cache..

[*]Could the (new) PCIe controller that these disks are on be to blame?

I got a reply on this in another thread:

 

I've started a preclear via the plugin, but after a few hours i cant see any progress.

The CPU

top

command shows two

dd

processes at 100% each, but there is no disk activity..

 

I descided to start a new subject to not hijack this thread.

https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=46303.0

 

I'm using a fairly virgin Unraid system, which makes me think this is a bug.

 

One quick thing.  Double checked that you do not have an ad blocker running or some other software/browser-setting to prevent pop-ups.  You may have to whitelist your unRAID server.

 

I just double checked, no ad is blocked..

 

But where in Unraid would a new window pop up? Should i leave the webinterface open or something? (which i didnt)