Mikey160984 Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Good Morning Guys! I was looking for answers for the question above. But so far, wasn‘t able to find something usefull If I would Pin 2 Cores to an VM, they are reservated for it and used by the VM. The Rest of the cores would be used by Unraid as it is necessary. So far so good... But what happens to these two cores when the VM is shut down? Are they still not available or will they go back to the Rest and can be used from Unraid for other tasks? Greets Quote Link to comment
bastl Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 If you pin 2 cores to a VM you only tell unRaid which cores are allowed to be used by the VM. As long as you don't isolate the cores on top of pinning them, Unraid, Docker, Plugins and other VMs can be using the same cores at the same time. If you isolate single cores they won't be used for anything until you specific pin them to a Docker Container or a VM. A real good explanation how it works and how to configure it you can find at Spaceinvader One's Youtube Videos. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mikey160984 Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 Pinning is for me when i create a VM, and in this mask I can choose the specific cores. So this is not isolating them, right? Quote Link to comment
bastl Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 Exactly. If you wanna isolate them you can find the setting under settings >> cpu pinning all the way on the bottom. As you can see, i isolated 8 cores and it's threads so only my Gaming VM are able to access them. Keep in mind core 0 will always be used by Unraid itself to manage stuff. You can't isolate this core and pin that one is also not a good idea because unraid always is doin some stuff in the backgroud which can hurt your performance. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mikey160984 Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 Thanks this was a really useful explanation. Now I see this stuff much clearer starting my unraid server tomorrow. Can’t wait for it. Only had a test box so far, but it broke a few weeks ago Quote Link to comment
bastl Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 What are the specs of your new system? Quote Link to comment
Mikey160984 Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 (edited) Supermicro X11SPL-f xeon Silver 4110 32 GB ECC Ram 5x4 TB Ironwolf and 2 TB Ironwolf for Time Machine 2x240 GB SSD for Cache Test Box was an old HP DC7800 and was limited by 3 SATA Connectors. The new pinning function seems to be great. On the test box I had 6.5.3 until it broke Edited October 16, 2018 by Mikey160984 Quote Link to comment
bastl Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 If you don't really know where to start with unraid i recommend that you look at SpaceInvaders Youtube channel. That guy has a lot of guides how to configure stuff or tweak things in unraid. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mikey160984 Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 Saw some of his videos already. This was very helpful at the beginning. Test box was only to learn so I can start a Real server Quote Link to comment
Mikey160984 Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 50 minutes ago, bastl said: What are the specs of your new system? What is your system? Quote Link to comment
bastl Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 You don't see my specs under each comment? 🤨 CPU: 1950x locked at 3,9GHz @1.15V Mobo: ASRock Fatal1ty X399 Professional Gaming RAM: 4x16GB TridentZ 3200MHz GPU: EVGA 1050ti + Asus Strix 1080ti Storage: 960 EVO 500GB NVME (Cache); 850 EVO 1TB SSD (Steam); 960 Pro 512GB NVME; 3x WD Red 3TB (Storage) Quote Link to comment
Mikey160984 Posted October 16, 2018 Author Share Posted October 16, 2018 Nope... not on the Phone nice specs... Quote Link to comment
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