I have a 6 core unraid rig that lately has been pretty idle.  I run Plex, duckdns, Plexwatch, Plexrequest, and crashplan.  I do have a windows VM that handles torrent downloading and such.  I guess lately I feel like unraid could be doing more.  I would like to get a feel for what others are doing, and maybe pick up something that sounds interesting

might be able to take your windows vm and run something like sonarr (tv shows) and couchpotato (movies) to do automated downloads for your torrents maybe running filebot to clean up your automated downloads.  I actually need to look at filebot again it runs my cpu crazy when i run it not sure if it's my version or something else

Setup BOINC and donate CPU cycles to worthy causes.  Aptalca has a docker, though I'd be tempted to set it up in a VM so I could pin the cores.

might be able to take your windows vm and run something like sonarr (tv shows) and couchpotato (movies) to do automated downloads for your torrents maybe running filebot to clean up your automated downloads.  I actually need to look at filebot again it runs my cpu crazy when i run it not sure if it's my version or something else

 

Already got this working with RSS feeds, Filebot and TheRenamer

Setup BOINC and donate CPU cycles to worthy causes.  Aptalca has a docker, though I'd be tempted to set it up in a VM so I could pin the cores.

You can pin cores in docker too 

 

Add the following in extra parameters in the container settings to pin the first three cores

--cpuset-cpus=0,1,2

Setup BOINC and donate CPU cycles to worthy causes.  Aptalca has a docker, though I'd be tempted to set it up in a VM so I could pin the cores.

You can pin cores in docker too 

 

Add the following in extra parameters in the container settings to pin the first three cores

--cpuset-cpus=0,1,2

And additionally also have the ability to prioritize which docker apps have cpu priority over others.  Easy setting to make, but hard to explain how it works in a quick post

 

Interesting.  I thought (mistakenly, it would appear) that the --cpuset parameter for Docker enabled something more like CPU preference than hard pinning.  I've got something new to try .

Cpuset is pinning. Another option is cpu shares which will prioritize (can't remember the exact parameter to use.  Its in the docker run reference online)

 

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Cpuset is pinning. Another option is cpu shares which will prioritize (can't remember the exact parameter to use.  Its in the docker run reference online)

 

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So i could pin 4 cores to all my dockers, then prioritize which docker has priority, but only run the dockers in those cores, leaving my other cores to pin to vms?

 

eg        --cpuset-cpus=7,8,9,10  -c 724  --cpu 7    which would pin 4 vcpus to that docker the give 724 out of 1024 (the defalt docker share) of cpu 7 but normal on others. so then next docker could be --cpuset-cpus=7,8,9,10  -c 300 --cpu 7 

 

so the fist docker gets 75 % of cpu 7, then 8,9,10 and next docker would be 25% cpu7 then 8,9,10.

 

Am I correct in this?

 

Just would like to limit my dockers to 4 cores but give emby higher priority in those cores

Correct.  Mobile so not really in a position to work out the extra parameters however.  But Google docker run reference and look at the sections talking about cpu shares

 

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Correct.  Mobile so not really in a position to work out the extra parameters however.  But Google docker run reference and look at the sections talking about cpu shares

 

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Ok thanks will do 

just read about the memory -m switch to allocate memory as well. Do you think this is worth doing at all. I have never had a docker seem to use much ram anyway?

I've never had any oom with any container so have never played around with it

 

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