hermy65 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 For the better part of 4 months ive been having an issue with my kodi instances buffering so ive been trying to resolve it and unfortunately have not made much progress. First off, my unRAID box is running on dual Xeon E5-2630 v4's and 64GB of ECC RAM. All of my kodi instances are on my wired gigabit LAN and yet they constantly buffer/cache, sometimes its every 5-10 minutes, other times its every 20-30 seconds. I dont notice anything on my unRAID machine that should be causing it but im out of ideas. I am using mariadb to host the SQL DB my Kodi instances point to but i cant foresee that being the issue. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
AiRLAC Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 unRAID version? Network protocol? Quote Link to comment
hermy65 Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 UnRAID 6.6.3, shares are SMB Quote Link to comment
AiRLAC Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 4 minutes ago, hermy65 said: UnRAID 6.6.3, shares are SMB First try a rollback to 6.6.1. I had issues with 6.6.3 and NFS shares, similar symptoms like your one. Quote Link to comment
hermy65 Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 I actually had the issue with 6.6.1 as well, just bumped to 6.6.3 to see if it was any better. Should I try NFS shares instead of SMB? Is there a reason to use NFS over SMB to begin with? Quote Link to comment
AiRLAC Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 5 minutes ago, hermy65 said: I actually had the issue with 6.6.1 as well, just bumped to 6.6.3 to see if it was any better. Should I try NFS shares instead of SMB? Is there a reason to use NFS over SMB to begin with? If you are running Kodi over something *nix based (i.e. not Windows) then NFS is better, lower cpu overhead and slightly better througput and slighty lower latency. I'm running OpenELEC on multiple devices and all using NFS. Quote Link to comment
hermy65 Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 Interesting, I may spin up an NFS share and see if that helps at all Quote Link to comment
tjb_altf4 Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I'm running a similar setup to that mentioned in first post with no issues ever in 2 years since I moved to unRAID (with a LibreELEC endpoint). Might be hardware or buffer settings on the KODI client/endpoints, or possibly something like torrents thrashing disks the video is on. Quote Link to comment
hermy65 Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 Ant chance you could share your buffer settings? Quote Link to comment
tjb_altf4 Posted November 3, 2018 Share Posted November 3, 2018 I don't have anything set, so system defaults only, but this is how you can tune: https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_the_video_cache?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss Quote Link to comment
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