Hey all, bit of a weird situation i ran into.

 

I was having my torrents download to my cache drive first but that ran out of space before the movers daily cycle so it filled out and everything got angry. I then decided to have it just write to the pool but what i have found is the write speeds cannot keep upload with my download speeds (I have 1gb internet) so i was thinking of adding another drive to the cache pool to give me 750GB of usable space but my question is say a torrent is still going or is just seeding and the mover starts, will it be able to move those files? I dont want my cache pool to run out of space again

3 hours ago, Blindsay said:

but my question is say a torrent is still going or is just seeding and the mover starts, will it be able to move those files?

 

Mover won't move open files.

If you wanted to do it by hand, if downloading you could set your torrent client to allocate all the space in the beginning .. stop the docker, run the mover, and then restart the docker. You could also create a script to do that as well using this plugin. Also make sure that you have your minimum space set.

 

User Scripts

A plugin to act as a simple front end for any user scripts to allow you to run them without entering the command line

As an anecdotal note:

 

I run my torrents to a User share that is set to use my SSD cache drive. I get the benefit of the faster SSD (my DL speed will never approach maxing that out) up front, then the mover runs at night to move the files to the spinners.

 

I think that on occasion, when the mover has kicked off, one or two of those recently DL'd files may have been open in the torrent client seeding to someone, but it seems to be fairly rare. If that happens, the mover run the next night will pick the file up and move it. The only time I've had items 'stuck' in my download directory on the cache drive is when I had my user share split levels and disk assignments messed up.

 

Of course, I don't know that I've ever come close to filling my cache drive with freshly DL'd content, but if you do find that's happening to you on occasion, you can manually kick off the mover and let it take care of anything that's not currently in use. I think the only time I've ever come close to filling my cache (without docker config errors) is right after Christmas when I'm ripping all the new movies.

@FreeMan

I have 500m internet and 2 Usenet subscriptions and 3 paid indexers, I just check usenet for backups of things I already own,  .... lol, I can fill up my 250gb cache in under an hour. I used to fill it up all the time and it would cause problems. Then I went in and made sure the minimum space was set and the mover trigger was set. Haven't had problems since then.