January 14, 20242 yr Author 4 hours ago, Rhuarc said: Any chance of getting fs.inotify.max_user_instances added to this plugin? I had to increase that because of a Plex issue, but not sure if it is going to persist after reboot. Would love to be able to set that and the existing one (max_user_watches) both. Thank you! Yes.
January 14, 20242 yr I only seem to have powersave and performance in the scaling governor. Does anyone know why? Update. Okay having read through it is because that is all that is offered by Intel P-state driver it seems. Do you get to choose a driver or just have to haev the one it defaults to? I have an Intel i7 9700 8 core CPU. Edited January 14, 20242 yr by planetwilson
February 8, 20242 yr The issue with a server hangup when changing from turbo ON to turbo OFF can be mitigated by stopping the main array. Making the change then starting array again. I'm still not sure what causes the issue but basically the server looses responsiveness and cannot be pinged. Doe anyone else have any issues? I am on 6.12.6 with a intel 11900t
February 14, 20242 yr Anyone here with an AMD Ryzen? I’m using the 5800x3d on unraid. Changed the governor from performance to ondemand. But I read that there’s an AMD specific driver that is supposedly tailored for these Ryzen cpus? Is that true? Like it’s stated here: Quote amd_pstate_epp This "active" driver implements a scaling driver with an internal governor for AMD Ryzen (some Zen 2 and newer) processors. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling#Scaling_drivers Has anyone used this at all in unraid? Or should I leave it as ondemand/performance realistically?
February 14, 20242 yr I haven't heard of that driver, but I will confirm that "Ondemand" does work for my 3960x (Zen2) as far as I can tell, within the "Tips & Tweaks" plugin. *Also, "Enable Intel Turbo/AMD Performance Boost?" seems to work as well. The biggest difference is between "Power Save" and "Performance". YMMV I guess.
February 24, 20242 yr New 13th Gen cpu on 6.12.8 - I can disable turbo but when toggle it back to ON doesn't yield a result without a reboot. Any ideas?
February 24, 20242 yr Author 7 hours ago, dopeytree said: New 13th Gen cpu on 6.12.8 - I can disable turbo but when toggle it back to ON doesn't yield a result without a reboot. Any ideas? What CPU Governor shows in the Tips and Tweaks UI page?
February 25, 20242 yr Author 3 hours ago, dopeytree said: powersave & performance What driver shows on the UI?
February 25, 20242 yr CPU Intel 13500H The issue is if I turn turbo off then turn back on it stays off until a reboot. It's a minor issue but have seen it on 2x Intel cpus. First one is a 11900T & this one is a 13500H. Does anyone else experience this? The new CPU is very good at stepping down so not such an issue.
February 25, 20242 yr Author 12 minutes ago, dopeytree said: The issue is if I turn turbo off then turn back on it stays off until a reboot. Turn off turbo boost and then go to a command line and run this command: /usr/bin/flock -x -w 1 /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo -c 'echo "0" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo' Let me know if this command generates any errors. If there are no errors, does the turbo boost turn back on?
February 25, 20242 yr Hmm thanks yeah turbo seems to turn back on with this command as now boosting back up past 2.6Ghz which is the turbo off limit.
February 25, 20242 yr Author 1 hour ago, dopeytree said: Hmm thanks yeah turbo seems to turn back on with this command as now boosting back up past 2.6Ghz which is the turbo off limit. Does the right side of Tips and Tweaks show the proper status of the turbo mode when you turn it back on?
June 7, 20242 yr Hello, the links to the "Tips and Tweaks" Wiki end in a "404". Could that be fixed or a special page be placed, that informs the user, why that Wiki has gone? Thank you.
June 7, 20242 yr Author 5 hours ago, amix said: Hello, the links to the "Tips and Tweaks" Wiki end in a "404". Could that be fixed or a special page be placed, that informs the user, why that Wiki has gone? Thank you. Where do you see a link to a "Tips and Tweaks" Wiki?
June 8, 20242 yr 10 hours ago, dlandon said: Where do you see a link to a "Tips and Tweaks" Wiki? In the first reply to your opening post, by @RobJ. And then later in some signature (or so), if memory serves me right.
June 8, 20242 yr Author 4 hours ago, amix said: In the first reply to your opening post, by @RobJ. And then later in some signature (or so), if memory serves me right. Those links are to the older documentation system that has been replaced. Trying to fix those now would be pretty impractical and I cannot change a person's signature content. About all I can do is strike out the links in the text that no longer work.
June 9, 20242 yr On 6/8/2024 at 2:53 PM, dlandon said: Trying to fix those now would be pretty impractical and I cannot change a person's signature content. About all I can do is strike out the links in the text that no longer work. My post was meant for the admins, since they should do something about the 404. Maybe create a page explaining why the wiki is no more.
June 10, 20242 yr On 6/9/2024 at 11:02 AM, amix said: My post was meant for the admins, since they should do something about the 404. Maybe create a page explaining why the wiki is no more. The urls in that signature have not been valid for many years, I went ahead and removed them. The current docs are available at https://docs.unraid.net/
July 12, 20241 yr Hey, so I'm new, and this is my first install. Before fully using it I want to make shure my 12700K never enters turbo mode, can't do this in my BIOS, and while I'm at it, if I can make it go into a low power state while I'm at sleep better. I might as well even consider turning it off, I'll see. So I landed is this plug-in. After reading through it I came up with these settings: However I got 2 doubts: 1. This line in the tips section: Quote If you set the 'Power Save' CPU Governor, you may see your processors stuck at 800 MHz. It is recommended you use the 'Performance' Governor for best performance and power savings. If during my powersaving schedule I don't care about performance and all I'm looking for is power saving as I wont be using it, is it still ok to set it as I did? 2. From the Normal Governor tooltip Quote "Performance" - Set all CPUs at full frequency regardless of load. This can have a positive influence on performance and latency. Will this still comply with the Intel Turbo configuration I set? Like will that "full frequency" ignore my config and push it to turbo levels? Thanks in advance!
September 1, 20241 yr How can I enable "turbo boost" and “performance" mode automaticly before starting the GamingVM? every time I play game through the gamingvm, I have to enable these two functions with several steps. Is there any commandline can help?
September 5, 20241 yr So do you still enable all the power saving features in your bios or does this defeat the object of this plugin?
November 5, 20241 yr There's some indication that for very high memory systems (i.e i have 256GB of memory), it would be better to set dirty_bytes / dirty_background_bytes instead (https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000017857). Since the % numbers are limited to integers, 1% / 2% still causes quite some freezing when the mover is running (my rough model is reads are queued behind 2.56GB of cache, so transferring at ~100MB / s means operations freeze for ~30s while mover is running). Could we add those two flags as an alternative way of setting dirty?
November 6, 20241 yr Author On 11/5/2024 at 7:02 AM, jch said: There's some indication that for very high memory systems (i.e i have 256GB of memory), it would be better to set dirty_bytes / dirty_background_bytes instead (https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000017857). Since the % numbers are limited to integers, 1% / 2% still causes quite some freezing when the mover is running (my rough model is reads are queued behind 2.56GB of cache, so transferring at ~100MB / s means operations freeze for ~30s while mover is running). Could we add those two flags as an alternative way of setting dirty? I'm looking at what I think might be a better way of doing this so the mover won't hang while writting to disk.
November 7, 20241 yr Author New release. Two dirty cache settings: Disk Cache 'vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs' - This controls how often (in hundredths of a second) the kernel checks for dirty data to flush in the background. The Linux default is 5 seconds. Tips and Tweaks defaults this value to 2 seconds. Disk Cache 'vm.dirty_expire_centisecs' - This setting dictates how long (in hundredths of a second) data can stay dirty before it’s eligible to be written to disk. The Linux default is 30 seconds. Tips and Tweaks defaults this value to 10 seconds. The Tips and Tweaks default values are reasonable for a system of 32GB of RAM. For a system with large amounts of RAM, the writeback might be best at 1 second and expire at 5 seconds. What all this means is that the cache is written more often and should improve the situation where the system pauses to write out a large cache.
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