ajvirus Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Hey LT Community! This recently started happening to one drive. is there any way i can get details as to what is causing all the reads on Disk 6 27million currently in 48 hours. Ive attached a screenshot. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks AJ Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Hey LT Community! This recently started happening to one drive. is there any way i can get details as to what is causing all the reads on Disk 6 27million currently in 48 hours. Ive attached a screenshot. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks AJActive streams plugin or alternatively open files plugin Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 30 minutes ago, Squid said: 55 minutes ago, ajvirus said: Hey LT Community! This recently started happening to one drive. is there any way i can get details as to what is causing all the reads on Disk 6 27million currently in 48 hours. Ive attached a screenshot. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks AJ Active streams plugin or alternatively open files plugin im sorry im not sure i understand what you mean Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 I'm not sure I understand what you don't understand, but on the Apps tab there are Plugins you can install to look at Active Streams and to look at Open Files. Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 19, 2017 Author Share Posted October 19, 2017 11 hours ago, trurl said: I'm not sure I understand what you don't understand, but on the Apps tab there are Plugins you can install to look at Active Streams and to look at Open Files. ok i did that, with no dockers/vms running i am averaging 300 reads per second and the active streams are showing 0 The drive is also healthy Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 10 hours ago, ajvirus said: ok i did that, with no dockers/vms running i am averaging 300 reads per second and the active streams are showing 0 And what about Open Files? You don't have your server exposed to the internet do you? Quote Link to comment
DZMM Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 The File Activity Plugin is also a good one as it shows historical activity as well. This helped me track down where Radarr was spinning up my drives Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 On 10/19/2017 at 9:00 AM, trurl said: And what about Open Files? You don't have your server exposed to the internet do you? It is not exposed, its definately a docker. i have moved all configs to my cache drive, still reading one single drive like crazy, but i cant tell which app is killing that single drive because its not showing being "read" in open files Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 On 10/19/2017 at 9:28 AM, DZMM said: The File Activity Plugin is also a good one as it shows historical activity as well. This helped me track down where Radarr was spinning up my drives When i run this, and set the settings all to "yes" all i see is a blank screen. This is very wierd behavior, ive tried reinstalling the dockers and erasing app data but no luck. i moved the app data to cache too....i believe i did it all properly Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 Just an update....so ive turned dockers to "Off" and VMs to "off" and im averaging 300 reads/per second. Ive noticed this in open files still even after both Docker/Vms are off Any suggestion as to what/why that is doing that? find 9744 Kill 2 1 /mnt/disk6/Cache Backup/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Serv ... /mnt/disk6/Cache Backup/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Serv ... Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 this "find" process keeps snooping my /mnt/disk6 which is the one with all the reads. now its going through different shares on that disk Quote Link to comment
DZMM Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 6 hours ago, ajvirus said: When i run this, and set the settings all to "yes" all i see is a blank screen. This is very wierd behavior, ive tried reinstalling the dockers and erasing app data but no luck. i moved the app data to cache too....i believe i did it all properly you have to increase Max Watches 'fs.inotify.max_user_watches' in the Tips & Tweaks plugin. I've set mine to 720000 Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 6 hours ago, DZMM said: you have to increase Max Watches 'fs.inotify.max_user_watches' in the Tips & Tweaks plugin. I've set mine to 720000 What will this do for me? Quote Link to comment
DZMM Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 4 minutes ago, ajvirus said: What will this do for me? gets the file activity plugin working Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 23, 2017 Author Share Posted October 23, 2017 DZMM, that did not let file activity work, still blank. Docker/VM off, server essentially idle, and the "find" process is scanning just that one drive constantly. new folders every time, new process ID. any suggestions as to how i can find the "parent" process that is starting find? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Its Dynamix Cache Dirs Exclude the Cache Backup share from the settings. (And ideally your appdata share also, since its going to have tons and tons of files that trying to keep track of them all may result in other cached inodes getting dropped. 1 Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 27, 2017 Author Share Posted October 27, 2017 On 10/23/2017 at 4:36 PM, Squid said: Its Dynamix Cache Dirs Exclude the Cache Backup share from the settings. (And ideally your appdata share also, since its going to have tons and tons of files that trying to keep track of them all may result in other cached inodes getting dropped. I tried this, even with dockers off it climbs, now on disk 5/6. would any log/diag info help here? Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted October 30, 2017 Author Share Posted October 30, 2017 UPDATE: im noticing the inotifywait is causing reads. no docker/vms running and its causing alot of reads/second what is this service? (found in openfiles app) Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 UPDATE: im noticing the inotifywait is causing reads. no docker/vms running and its causing alot of reads/second what is this service? (found in openfiles app) bump.....it went up to 117 million reads...help whats inotify wait please Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 inotifywait is a program that monitors files / folders for access to them, and then signals another program that something has happened. I doubt that inotifywait itself is causing the reads. Where its used off the top of my head: OpenFiles, Dynamix File Integrity, Ransomware Protection and more, docker apps like Plex, Emby, Crashplan, and many more. Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 2 minutes ago, Squid said: inotifywait is a program that monitors files / folders for access to them, and then signals another program that something has happened. I doubt that inotifywait itself is causing the reads. Where its used off the top of my head: OpenFiles, Dynamix File Integrity, Ransomware Protection and more, docker apps like Plex, Emby, Crashplan, and many more. would any logging help? i dont want to kill the life if my drives from random reads while the server is idle Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Restart in safe mode. (Or keep docker disabled and start uninstalling plugins one at a time), but diagnostics never hurt. Quote Link to comment
ajvirus Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 Just now, Squid said: Restart in safe mode. (Or keep docker disabled and start uninstalling plugins one at a time), but diagnostics never hurt. ok so after restart in safemode what needs to be done? will dockers/VMs run? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Honestly I can't remember. It used to be just plugins wouldn't get installed, but that changed. You'll know by if there's a docker tab or vm tab. Just disable whats actually not needed Quote Link to comment
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