Is it possible you have a photo program that greedily searches for images?

I did have Picasa installed. But I uninstalled that several days ago. I also have orb installed on my other computer. It might be that but I don't want go give up orb if that's the culprit. I use that all the time to view my media center shows on my iPhone.

omg the saga continues.  ever since i made those registry changes on my home computer it has been acting strange - keeps freezing and rebooting randomly.  i changed the registry settings back to their original setting but it didn't help.  its still rebooting randomly several times per day.  and just a moment ago after a reboot it came up to windows 7 recovery console instead of actually booting so i think i am going to have to reinstall windows.  this is a nightmare.

Or you could ignore the anti-MS propaganda and work out what your hardware issue is with that PC. Several people have Windows 7 working perfectly fine and being used with unRAID without issues.

You know, you could simply downgrade to XP

 

I can see the merit to such an idea.  

XP's been out for a long time, and most of the bugs have been ironed out.  Win7 is yet to mature like that.

 

If bdee1 has XP handy, and if trere's no special reason which absolutely requires win7, then why not?  

It's nothing to do with "propaganda", or "anti-MS".  XP is MS after all.    

 

If for no other reason, simply because XP is EOL (end of life) and does not get the care and attention needed for security patches.

 

Not to mention the user experience is (usually) drastically better under Windows 7 than under Vista or XP.

Not to mention the user experience is (usually) drastically better under Windows 7 than under Vista or XP.

I am so itching to respond to this, but I'll abstain, for the sake of love and peace between us.

 

Purko,

 

Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm beginning to prefer the 'shiny' interfaces. The last time I used XP, I would have to go in and change nearly all of the default settings everywhere. I haven't had to change too many settings under Windows 7 to find it usable. For the most part, I find a Win7 system ready to go after installing a handful of desktop gadgets, nod32, mirc, pidgin, firefox, putty, media player classic home cinema edition, power dvd, steam, and visual studio team suite. Under WinXP, there's so much more that has to be done and regardless of all the tweaks done, the snappiness and responsiveness just does not exist under XP as it does under Win7.

 

Perhaps my viewpoint is slanted because of the hardware used on my main rig, but the main hardware is well over 2 years old: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz, 8 GB DDR2, Vertex 120 GB SSD, 750 GB HDD, AMD 4870HD, Dell 2405FP LCD, Panasonic V10 54" Plasma.

 

 

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On topic:

 

I hate to say this, but there seems to be something 'not right' with your system if its freezing and rebooting randomly. It's going to be a real pain to troubleshoot two system problems at the same time. It may be easier to sort out your client pc issues first before you try tackling your server issues.

 

By any chance do you have both/either system connected to a UPS device? With the vast difficulties you're experienced it could be related to or caused by poor power line conditions.

I'm really happy with Win7.  I still have some virtual machines running Win2K and a couple machines running WinXP (one just died old psu or maybe the MB caps are finally dying).  I bought 2 laptops and built a desktop machine in December and put Win7 64bit on all of them.  I'm really knocked out how nice it is.  Having used Win2008 Server and Vista for work development I'm so pleased with Win7.  It reminds me of when Winxp SP2 came out and made it the OS of a decade. 

I'm really happy with Win7.  I still have some virtual machines running Win2K and a couple machines running WinXP (one just died old psu or maybe the MB caps are finally dying).  I bought 2 laptops and built a desktop machine in December and put Win7 64bit on all of them.  I'm really knocked out how nice it is.  Having used Win2008 Server and Vista for work development I'm so pleased with Win7.  It reminds me of when Winxp SP2 came out and made it the OS of a decade.  

 

1. Who The F Cares?

2. How the F is that on topic?

3. How the F is that helping the problem?

 

I said I was not going to comment, but you guys asked for it.

 

First, BRiT accuses Barzjia of "propaganda" -- when all the guy did was make a simple suggestion --

and then you people start making propaganda in earnest.  So, how the F is that helping anybody?  

 

Oh and queeg, don't forget to call the moderator!

 

Or make another thread about trolls.

 

Sadly, a lot of people fell for the M$ "propaganda" that Win 7 fixed all the bugs and problems that vista had. The truth is people should wait or be prepared for headache until "Service pack 1 or 2" is released. Every windows version has been riddled with problems at release. That's just the facts of MS Windows, they use the first release as a public beta. I find it silly how people forget this every time a new version comes out.

I'm really happy with Win7.  I still have some virtual machines running Win2K and a couple machines running WinXP (one just died old psu or maybe the MB caps are finally dying).  I bought 2 laptops and built a desktop machine in December and put Win7 64bit on all of them.  I'm really knocked out how nice it is.  Having used Win2008 Server and Vista for work development I'm so pleased with Win7.  It reminds me of when Winxp SP2 came out and made it the OS of a decade.  

 

1. Who The F Cares?

2. How the F is that on topic?

3. How the F is that helping the problem?

 

I said I was not going to comment, but you guys asked for it.

 

First, BRiT accuses Barzjia of "propaganda" -- when all the guy did was make a simple suggestion --

and then you people start making propaganda in earnest.  So, how the F is that helping anybody?  

 

Oh and queeg, don't forget to call the moderator!

 

Or make another thread about trolls.

 

 

Dude, me thinks you doth protest too much!  Again!  

 

All that hate only leads to the dark side Purko.

 

 

I run 2 XP Ultimate 64bit, 2 Vista Extreme 64bit, 1 stock Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, and 1 Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 2.5 64bit PC's. (As you can see Windows 7 is the only stock OS I am running.) And for an out of the box OS, it is very good. (Much better then any Windows OS I have used.)

However we digress! There is a problem on board here that seems to be overlooked as of late. I don't know what to suggest.

 

Sadly, a lot of people fell for the M$ "propaganda" that Win 7 fixed all the bugs and problems that vista had. The truth is people should wait or be prepared for headache until "Service pack 1 or 2" is released. Every windows version has been riddled with problems at release. That's just the facts of MS Windows, they use the first release as a public beta. I find it silly how people forget this every time a new version comes out.

so for some reason I stopped getting email notifications for this thread and missed the last several posts until now....

 

i think i have gotten my pc issues worked out.  I think it was a heat issue. odd that it just cropped up seemingly out of the blue but regardless ti seems to be better now.

 

but the unraid issues continue.  i have tried removing any software i could think of that might be opening all those files... picasa, orb... and i cant seem to figure out what is doing it.

 

but that aside, i never seemed to have this issue with unraid when i was back on 4.4.2.  it seems as though it was shortly after upgrading to 4.5 that it all started.  So i am wondering how easy/feasible it woudl be to roll back to 4.4.2 and see if that fixes it.  it is as simple as dropping the two files (bzimage and bzroot i think) onto my flash and rebooting, just like when i was upgrading?  or will downgrading cause problems?

i never seemed to have this issue with unraid when i was back on 4.4.2.  it seems as though it was shortly after upgrading to 4.5 that it all started.  So i am wondering how easy/feasible it woudl be to roll back to 4.4.2 and see if that fixes it.  it is as simple as dropping the two files (bzimage and bzroot i think) onto my flash and rebooting, just like when i was upgrading?  or will downgrading cause problems?

It is exactly as you said.  You just replace the two files, bzimage and bzroot, and that's all.

 

ok i may give that a shot when i get the chance and see what happens. 

well its been a while but I am still having the same problems.  I wound up downgrading to 4.4.2 and the problems persist.  sometimes i can go a week or more without restarting the array and other times i have to restart it every day or 2.  always with the too many files open error and usually with my pictures being the culprit like before.

 

I just cant seem to figure out what is opening (and leaving open) all those files.  and the weirdest thing is that before i posted i never had these problems and it seemed like it just started happening one day and I hadn't installed any new software or anything that woudl have been locking these files.  It really is maddening.