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Tips and Tweaks Plugin to possibly improve performance of Unraid and VMs

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I want to change the governor at the start of a vm and when the vm stops. Is there a way to call a cli script to change the governor and update the Tips and Tricks settings?

 

I wrote a script which changes the governor and replaces the CPU_GOVERNOR in the tips.and.tweaks.cfg, but something changed in the last few weeks and the script does not work anymore when qemu is calling it, and i thought, maybe there is something already laying around on my unraid and i don't know it 🤷‍♂️

 

Thanks in advance!

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does this interferre with fuzzy01 autotweak plugin?

both this plugin and autotweak both touch the networks in some way.

i just want confirmation that they both are not toch the same settings...

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15 hours ago, bmartino1 said:

does this interferre with fuzzy01 autotweak plugin?

both this plugin and autotweak both touch the networks in some way.

i just want confirmation that they both are not toch the same settings...

Non knowing what the autotweak plugin does, it's entirely possible.  You can keep Tips and Tweaks from doing anything to NICs by setting all NIC settings to 'Default'.

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If I uninstall the plugin does it undo everything you have set?

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On 1/13/2025 at 2:43 PM, Paul_Ber said:

If I uninstall the plugin does it undo everything you have set?

You have to reboot to set everything back to default.

  • 2 weeks later...

I have a weird issue with the plugin: since the update to Unraid 7.0.0, the Tweaks section is empty? I only see the Tips (textual) and the Tweaks header, but nothing else. Reinstalling the plugin did not solve this. Any suggestions?

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3 hours ago, Harmani said:

I have a weird issue with the plugin: since the update to Unraid 7.0.0, the Tweaks section is empty? I only see the Tips (textual) and the Tweaks header, but nothing else. Reinstalling the plugin did not solve this. Any suggestions?

Show a screen shot of the issue.  Type ctrl-shift-j to bring up the Java Script console and see if there are any errors.

 

Try another Browser.

On 1/24/2025 at 1:09 PM, dlandon said:

Show a screen shot of the issue.  Type ctrl-shift-j to bring up the Java Script console and see if there are any errors.

 

Try another Browser.

Thnx for your reply. See a screenshot from Firefox attached. Not sure if I'm showing you the right stuff, as I don't see "Java Script console" you mentioned.

I've tried Chrome and Firefox on 2 separate clients.

TipsAndTweaks.jpg

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5 hours ago, Harmani said:

Thnx for your reply. See a screenshot from Firefox attached. Not sure if I'm showing you the right stuff, as I don't see "Java Script console" you mentioned.

I see what I need to see.  Post your diagnostics so I can see more details.

23 hours ago, dlandon said:

I see what I need to see.  Post your diagnostics so I can see more details.

See attached. A server crash and reboot last night did not help 😅

 

Nevermind! The crash was caused by (or caused?) corruption of my USB flash. Upon further investigation one of the files affected was tips_and_tweaks.cfg which was corrupted. I migrated to a new USB flash, replaced the pluging files from an older backup and now the settings part is back! Thnx anyway.

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On 1/16/2025 at 2:43 AM, dlandon said:

You have to reboot to set everything back to default.

 

That is, reboot after removing the plugin?

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41 minutes ago, Ruato said:

 

That is, reboot after removing the plugin?

Yes.

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Hello,

it seems that your plugin "Tips and Tweaks" does not work correct anymore after updating to Unraid 7.0.0. - my server need now about 35% more power.

You can also see on the screenshot, that the options for performance boost are not displayed anymyore and my Normal CPU Scaling Governor is set to conservative, but on the right there is displayed "performance". With Unraid 6.12.14 everything worked fine.

Would you please check this?

Screenshot_1.png

 

This is with Unraid 6.12.14:

Screenshot_2.thumb.png.36d2cfb679d831718c1a5ca68e86deb4.png

nas01-diagnostics-20250220-1928.zip

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40 minutes ago, cosmas said:

Hello,

it seems that your plugin "Tips and Tweaks" does not work correct anymore after updating to Unraid 7.0.0. - my server need now about 35% more power.

You can also see on the screenshot, that the options for performance boost are not displayed anymyore and my Normal CPU Scaling Governor is set to conservative, but on the right there is displayed "performance". With Unraid 6.12.14 everything worked fine.

Would you please check this?

Screenshot_1.png

 

This is with Unraid 6.12.14:

Screenshot_2.thumb.png.36d2cfb679d831718c1a5ca68e86deb4.png

nas01-diagnostics-20250220-1928.zip 151.18 kB · 0 downloads

Your screen shots do not show.  I believe the CPU Scaling Governor changed with the Linux update in 7.0 and I need to see a screen shot with the CPU Governor showing on the Tips and Tweaks page.

@dlandon

What information is missing?

I think everything is displayed on my screenshots.

Where can I find the missing information?

Thats the complete area at the settings with Unraid 6:Screenshot_20250220_213318_Chrome.thumb.jpg.f39b923962f63971047eb5b5d5a3e014.jpg

 

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Your screen shots show up as a tiny icon and not a screen shot.  I don't think screen shots are showing properly in the forum right now.  What I need is the driver information.  In my case it is "Driver: Intel CPU Freq".

@dlandon

It was: ACPI CPU Freq

Now it is: amd-pstate-epp

 

Yes there are problems in this forum with pictures it seems...

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22 minutes ago, cosmas said:

@dlandon

It was: ACPI CPU Freq

Now it is: amd-pstate-epp

 

Yes there are problems in this forum with pictures it seems...

Give me the output of this command:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost

 

The output is:

0

 

but I reverted to Unraid 6.

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3 minutes ago, cosmas said:

The output is:

0

 

but I reverted to Unraid 6.

That should mean turbo mode is off.  I need the info from Unraid 7.0.

Hello @dlandon

 

The result for "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost" on Unraid 7 is:

 

# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost
cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost: No such file or directory

 

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2 hours ago, cosmas said:

Hello @dlandon

 

The result for "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost" on Unraid 7 is:

 

# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost
cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost: No such file or directory

 

Give me the output of this command:

ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd_pstate/

 

# ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd_pstate/
prefcore  status

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7 hours ago, dlandon said:

Give me the output of this command:

ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd_pstate/

 

The 'amd_pstate' is new and the boost might not be implemented yet.  Give me the output of this command:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd_pstate/cpb_boost

if that file is there, the boost should be configurable.

@dlandon

# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd_pstate/cpb_boost
cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd_pstate/cpb_boost: No such file or directory

 

This is in the directory:

# cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd_pstate/
root@nas01:/sys/devices/system/cpu/amd_pstate# ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 Feb 21 11:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root    0 Feb 21 11:33 ../
-r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Feb 21 20:38 prefcore
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 Feb 21 20:38 status

 

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