...but the web interface is still very sluggish.

 

This is normal while doing multiple preclears, on my server noticeble with 3 or more.

My array is NOT started (I have some problems) and I have four 5Tb drives running preclear via the plugin and I am out of memory (on 32Gb system).... I have 99% in use!

 

 

Google is your friend.  A quick search found this site:

 

    http://www.binarytides.com/linux-command-check-memory-usage/

 

As I read it, you have quite a bit of overhead available.

 

I had done free and cat /proc/meminfo (hence info above)... but I also found the caches didnt clear. Have cleared them and have free memory now but the web interface is still very sluggish. Maybe best to let this 1st pre-clear finish and then stop. Reboot server and do passes 2 & 3 ...

 

I have found that using Screen is the best way to do many (I've had 4 or 5 going simultaneously on 24G system) pre-clears at once.  Interesting thing is they show up in the webgui!  So you can monitor them from the browser. 

Doesn't seem to work for me on 6.1.7? Uninstalled and reinstalled, only to find it no longer shows in settings either.

 

EDIT, rebooted and reinstalled - BINGO.

Is this still in Beta? Or has it been sufficiently tested to this point?

Is this still in Beta? Or has it been sufficiently tested to this point?

google's version of beta 

I ran 4 drives and 3 of them ran and finished, took a long time but its expected.

 

the fourth has been sitting at this stage for 2 days, im not sure if i need reboot and try to preclear or leave it and consider it a no good drive.

 

================================================================== 1.15
=                unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdd
=               cycle 1 of 3, partition start on sector 64
= Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed                                 DONE
= Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes             DONE
= Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE
= Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward.           DONE
= Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4       DONE
= Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area                         DONE
= Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes                    DONE
= Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state        DONE
= Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning   DONE
= Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries             DONE
= Step 10 of 10 - Verifying if the MBR is cleared.              DONE
= Post-Read in progress: 2% complete.
(  59,626,700,800  of  2,000,398,934,016  bytes read )
Disk Temperature: 43C, Elapsed Time:  117:55:31

post your diagnostics file.

post your diagnostics file.

 

Moved on, i got 20 drives for free if 2 fail Meh, once i get done with the others i will re-try it.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

post your diagnostics file.

 

Moved on, i got 20 drives for free if 2 fail Meh, once i get done with the others i will re-try it.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Am I reading that correctly? You signed a deal which got you 20 drives for free if two of your batch failed?

post your diagnostics file.

 

Moved on, i got 20 drives for free if 2 fail Meh, once i get done with the others i will re-try it.

 

Thanks for the help.

Am I reading that correctly? You signed a deal which got you 20 drives for free if two of your batch failed?

I interpreted it as meaning he got the 20 drives for free so was not too worried if 2 failed.  I wonder which is the correct interpretation?

 

post your diagnostics file.

 

Moved on, i got 20 drives for free if 2 fail Meh, once i get done with the others i will re-try it.

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Am I reading that correctly? You signed a deal which got you 20 drives for free if two of your batch failed?

I interpreted it as meaning he got the 20 drives for free so was not too worried if 2 failed.  I wonder which is the correct interpretation?

That's the way I read it too. fixed your quoting

Wow the plot thickens, I feel special.

Clarification, I scored 20 2TB for free if any fail I can live with it. They were free.

Is this still in Beta? Or has it been sufficiently tested to this point?

google's version of beta 

 

Ok, guys, officially out of beta stage!

 

Thanks a lot for all your input.

Wow the plot thickens, I feel special.

Clarification, I scored 20 2TB for free if any fail I can live with it. They were free.

 

Score!!!! Craigslist here I come Lol

Is this still in Beta? Or has it been sufficiently tested to this point?

google's version of beta 

 

Ok, guys, officially out of beta stage!

 

Thanks a lot for all your input.

Is there an update to be done?

Ok, guys, officially out of beta stage!

 

Thanks a lot for all your input.

 

'grats!

Ok, guys, officially out of beta stage!

 

Thanks a lot for all your input.

 

'grats!

 

If you guys have a moment, could you take a look at this related post.  Looks like 2 of us have the same problem with the preclear plugin hanging on the boot record.  Is there a diagnostic or log we can check?  I've looked in the preclear log directory on the flash drive, and there's not entry for this disk.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=46501.msg444428#msg444428

 

 

 

 

If you guys have a moment, could you take a look at this related post.  Looks like 2 of us have the same problem with the preclear plugin hanging on the boot record.  Is there a diagnostic or log we can check?  I've looked in the preclear log directory on the flash drive, and there's not entry for this disk.

 

 

I never saw anything about this, but clearly it's a script problem. Nothing I could do from my side, I'm afraid. Please post this here to someone help you.

Feature request:  any thoughts on supporting multiple scrips in the plugin (user selectable via drop-down menu)?  Such as the original preclear using Joe. L's most excellent script, the bjp999 modification and perhaps Webo's badblocks process if he were to be interested in sharing his script or bless the work of someone to script his process?

Am I doing something wrong?  I can only get 1 preclear to run at a time.  I told the process to start on 2 drives, but it will only run on 1 or the other.  The second drive stays paused.  Is this some setting I have messed up?  Thanks, Andrew

Am I doing something wrong?  I can only get 1 preclear to run at a time.  I told the process to start on 2 drives, but it will only run on 1 or the other.  The second drive stays paused.  Is this some setting I have messed up?  Thanks, Andrew

What exactly do you mean by "paused". Post a screenshot.

Am I doing something wrong?  I can only get 1 preclear to run at a time.  I told the process to start on 2 drives, but it will only run on 1 or the other.  The second drive stays paused.  Is this some setting I have messed up?  Thanks, Andrew

What exactly do you mean by "paused". Post a screenshot.

Looks like I was wrong.  Whem i posted earlier the timer was not progressing on the second disc or vice versa.  Now it seems both timers are progressing but the samsung drive is 1 MB/s and not reporting temp correctly.  Both drives were sitting on my desk all night long and should have been exact dame temp but they werent when i placed them in the chasis.  The samsung hasnt budged off 13 degrees and i know ambient is higher than that.  I suppose I'll scrap that drive?  All 3 of these drives were out of older computers i had lying around.  Figured I would use 2 of them as a cache pool and add the current 4TB cache drive to the array as a data.  Screen shot attached via teamviewer im not home. 

Go to Tools - Diagnostics and post

Well upon trying to post a log and exceeding 192 KB I unziped and found my syslog was 10MB!!  Seems I have had a whole bunch of errors going on all day.  Guess this drive is toast?  Is there anything else that you would like to see or am I correct in assuming trash the disk?  Thanks!  Andrew  PS. Ill delete this crap after you respond so that it doesnt clog up your thread.

 

Here is a link to the folder since it exceeds the attachment limit here.

 

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=775185346CCCDA69!2351&authkey=!AMOQL28Nd5kZUJ4&ithint=folder%2c

 

In the syslog you will see a whole bunch of this

 

Feb 15 17:57:38 Tower kernel: blk_update_request: critical medium error, dev sdi, sector 362150304

Feb 15 17:57:38 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sdi, logical block 45268788, async page read

Feb 15 17:57:39 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08

Feb 15 17:57:39 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]

Feb 15 17:57:39 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0

Feb 15 17:57:39 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 15 95 f9 a0 00 00 08 00

Feb 15 17:57:39 Tower kernel: blk_update_request: critical medium error, dev sdi, sector 362150304

Feb 15 17:57:39 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sdi, logical block 45268788, async page read

Feb 15 17:57:41 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08

Feb 15 17:57:41 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]

Feb 15 17:57:41 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0

Feb 15 17:57:41 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 15 96 04 88 00 00 08 00

Feb 15 17:57:41 Tower kernel: blk_update_request: critical medium error, dev sdi, sector 362153096

Feb 15 17:57:41 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sdi, logical block 45269137, async page read

Feb 15 17:57:43 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08

Feb 15 17:57:43 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]

Feb 15 17:57:43 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0

Feb 15 17:57:43 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 15 96 04 88 00 00 08 00

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=775185346CCCDA69!2351&authkey=!AMOQL28Nd5kZUJ4&ithint=folder%2c

Feb 15 17:57:49 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]

Feb 15 17:57:49 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0

Feb 15 17:57:49 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 15 96 0f 70 00 00 08 00

Feb 15 17:57:49 Tower kernel: blk_update_request: critical medium error, dev sdi, sector 362155888

Feb 15 17:57:49 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sdi, logical block 45269486, async page read

Feb 15 17:57:51 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08

Feb 15 17:57:51 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]

Feb 15 17:57:51 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0

Feb 15 17:57:51 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 15 96 0f 70 00 00 08 00

Feb 15 17:57:51 Tower kernel: blk_update_request: critical medium error, dev sdi, sector 362155888

Feb 15 17:57:51 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sdi, logical block 45269486, async page read

Feb 15 17:57:53 Tower kernel: sd 1:0:7:0: [sdi] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08

 

 

 

SMART for the Samsung looks OK. Check connections.