(SOLVED) Doubled My RAM, Slowed Parity Check in Half or worse


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Hi Everyone, Had some interesting behaviour after adding more RAM, My Parity check halved it's speed or worse.

 

My Tower3 had 1x 16Gb of RAM, added 1x stick of 16Gb of the same model and brand, was seen properly in bios and UnRaid.

But my Parity check went from about 110Mb/s, went to 70mb's... I removed the 16Gb of RAM, Parity check went back to 110Mb/s

 

My Tower2 had 1x 8Gb of RAM, added 1x stick of 8gb of exactly the same model and brand, was seen properly in bios and UnRaid.

But my Parity check went from about 80Mb/s, went to 3mb's... I removed the 8Gb of RAM, Parity check went back to 80Mb/s

 

Did I miss something when I added the RAM, configuration??

Do I need to do anything other than adding the RAM stick to the motherboard and boot into UnRaid?

 

The Diagnostic is from my Tower3 while running the Parity check with the 32Gb of Ram installed.

 

Appreciate your always valuable advice

tower3-diagnostics-20190623-0849.zip

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More RAM won't slow down a parity check, a failing disk will:

 

Jun 22 06:02:22 Tower3 kernel: md: disk13 read error, sector=136846664
Jun 22 06:02:22 Tower3 kernel: md: disk13 read error, sector=136846672
Jun 22 06:02:22 Tower3 kernel: md: disk13 read error, sector=136846680
Jun 22 06:02:22 Tower3 kernel: md: disk13 read error, sector=136846688
Jun 22 06:02:22 Tower3 kernel: md: disk13 read error, sector=136846696
Jun 22 06:02:22 Tower3 kernel: md: disk13 read error, sector=136846704

 

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For now they are not reported as pending sectors, so not the usual monitored attributes, but you should be getting an "array has errors" system notification, also the problem can be seen on the SMART report, this attribute should be 0 on a healthy WD drive

 

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAGS    VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     POSR-K   200   200   051    -    177

and mostly these, these are recent UNC @ LBA errors, aka read errors, and this is a disk problem, not cable/connection related.:
 

Error 401 [16] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 31143 hours (1297 days + 15 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER -- ST COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC
  -- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --
  40 -- 51 00 00 00 01 53 9f bf c0 40 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x1539fbfc0 = 5697945536

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FEATR COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC  Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --  ---------------  --------------------
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 53 9f bc 18 40 00     22:15:53.114  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 53 9f b8 18 40 00     22:15:53.106  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 53 9f b4 18 40 00     22:15:53.100  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 53 9f b0 18 40 00     22:15:53.092  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 53 9f ac 18 40 00     22:15:53.085  READ FPDMA QUEUED

Error 400 [15] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 31143 hours (1297 days + 15 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER -- ST COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC
  -- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --
  40 -- 51 00 00 00 01 4f 8c ed 08 40 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x14f8ced08 = 5629603080

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FEATR COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC  Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --  ---------------  --------------------
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4f 8c ec 18 40 00     22:08:05.744  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4f 8c e8 18 40 00     22:08:05.737  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4f 8c e4 18 40 00     22:08:05.730  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4f 8c e0 18 40 00     22:08:05.724  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4f 8c dc 18 40 00     22:08:05.716  READ FPDMA QUEUED

Error 399 [14] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 31143 hours (1297 days + 15 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER -- ST COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC
  -- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --
  40 -- 51 00 00 00 01 4a 85 20 58 40 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x14a852058 = 5545205848

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FEATR COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC  Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --  ---------------  --------------------
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 85 20 18 40 00     21:58:50.189  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 85 1c 18 40 00     21:58:50.183  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 85 18 18 40 00     21:58:50.175  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 85 14 18 40 00     21:58:50.169  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 85 10 18 40 00     21:58:50.162  READ FPDMA QUEUED

Error 398 [13] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 31143 hours (1297 days + 15 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER -- ST COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC
  -- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --
  40 -- 51 00 00 00 01 4a 73 26 50 40 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x14a732650 = 5544027728

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FEATR COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC  Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --  ---------------  --------------------
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 73 24 18 40 00     21:58:39.064  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 73 20 18 40 00     21:58:39.057  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 73 1c 18 40 00     21:58:39.050  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 73 18 18 40 00     21:58:39.043  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 73 14 18 40 00     21:58:39.036  READ FPDMA QUEUED

Error 397 [12] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 31143 hours (1297 days + 15 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER -- ST COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC
  -- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --
  40 -- 51 00 00 00 01 4a 68 38 f8 40 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x14a6838f8 = 5543311608

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FEATR COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC  Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --  ---------------  --------------------
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 68 38 18 40 00     21:58:30.968  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 68 34 18 40 00     21:58:30.961  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 68 30 18 40 00     21:58:30.955  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 68 2c 18 40 00     21:58:30.948  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 68 28 18 40 00     21:58:30.942  READ FPDMA QUEUED

Error 396 [11] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 31143 hours (1297 days + 15 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER -- ST COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC
  -- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --
  40 -- 51 00 00 00 01 4a 48 f3 70 40 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x14a48f370 = 5541262192

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FEATR COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC  Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --  ---------------  --------------------
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 48 f0 18 40 00     21:58:14.117  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 48 ec 18 40 00     21:58:14.111  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 48 e8 18 40 00     21:58:14.104  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 48 e4 18 40 00     21:58:14.098  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 48 e0 18 40 00     21:58:14.091  READ FPDMA QUEUED

Error 395 [10] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 31143 hours (1297 days + 15 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER -- ST COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC
  -- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --
  40 -- 51 00 00 00 01 4a 08 43 e8 40 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x14a0843e8 = 5537022952

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FEATR COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC  Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --  ---------------  --------------------
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 08 40 18 40 00     21:57:42.351  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 08 3c 18 40 00     21:57:42.345  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 08 38 18 40 00     21:57:42.338  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 08 34 18 40 00     21:57:42.331  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 08 30 18 40 00     21:57:42.324  READ FPDMA QUEUED

Error 394 [9] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 31143 hours (1297 days + 15 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER -- ST COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC
  -- -- -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --
  40 -- 51 00 00 00 01 4a 06 bb 90 40 00  Error: UNC at LBA = 0x14a06bb90 = 5536922512

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FEATR COUNT  LBA_48  LH LM LL DV DC  Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- == -- == -- == == == -- -- -- -- --  ---------------  --------------------
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 06 b8 18 40 00     21:57:38.179  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 06 b4 18 40 00     21:57:38.172  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 06 b0 18 40 00     21:57:38.166  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 06 ac 18 40 00     21:57:38.159  READ FPDMA QUEUED
  60 04 00 00 00 00 01 4a 06 a8 18 40 00     21:57:38.153  READ FPDMA QUEUED

 

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