eddie_adams Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Hi all, new to unRAID as I've taken over IT duties from a previous user. Both of us have limited knowledge in IT setups so hopefully you can provide some assistance. Current setup: 24 iMacs on Cat6 running into a GS728TXS Netgear smart switch. Switch is patched into the chassis via SFP+. Chassis is a 24-bay with 3TB WD Green drives running Limewire unRAID. One single Mac Pro has a direct Fibre line to the switch as well. All computers experience the same issues, which is: Upon first connecting to the NAS, there is a 20-30 sec delay while the Finder window fetches the listing of Shares. From here, there is typically a 10-30 sec delay in loading EVERY directory as we move further into the shares and away from the root. Sometimes when we leave a Finder window open and idle for a few mins, the directory will display a 20-30 delay next time we click into that directory. Also, I've noticed that if we attempt to search within a folder using Spotlight, it will never search any sub-directory within the current search folder. We also use a program called VisualDiffer to compare directory contents between local and NAS folders. The program will often list a folder as empty on the NAS, but when going into the directory, there are most certainly files inside it. Doing another compare will then show the contents of the directory. Additionally, if Finder is trying to fetch info from any of the NAS shares and is experiencing the 10-30 delay I'm referring to, ALL local folders will also exhibit identical delays in fetching directory info, despite being local. It's as if the NAS slows down the Finders fetching process across the board. From what I understand WD Greens are terrible NAS drives due to their desire to spin down after 8 seconds of inactivity. Within the unRAID setup, we've told the OS to never spin down discs, but that did not seem to have any affect on load times. Unfortunately this is what we have to work with and replacing the HDD is likely not an option at this point. Any ideas of what the slow down could be caused from, or any suggestions for a fix? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
gcleaves Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 I was having similar issues on OSX Mavericks which went away when I connected to the shared folder by IP address instead of name. Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I'm experiencing the same problem, also a friend of mine as well (his Unraid is nearly identical to mine). We're both using v5.0.5 accessed from Mac OS (10.10.1 on mine, not sure about Paul's) Syslog is attached. SysInfo is System: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. - F2A88XM-D3H CPU: AMD A4-5300 APU with Radeon HD Graphics - 3.4 GHz Cache: 96 kB, 1024 kB Memory: 12288 MB (max. 8 GB) Network: eth0: 1000Mb/s - Full Duplex Connections: One Any help would be appreciated. My friend is thinking of buying a Drobo. Unraid_syslog.txt Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Attach the entire syslog. Zip if needed. Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Try this. I found the right place to get the whole syslog this time. Unraid_syslog_2.txt.zip Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Post a SMART report for disk6. Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I've had a crack at using smartctl -a -d ata /dev/md6 But get this error Read Device Identity failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Regardless, through the dashboard I can see disk 6 has 197 errors. It's a 3TB drive, so I'm quite happy to just pull it out and replace with a new 4TB drive rather than risk having it fail while in use. Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Try "smartctl -a /dev/md6". Reboot and try again. The drive may be fine. Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Password: Linux 3.9.11p-unRAID. root@Tower:~# smartctl -a /dev/md6 smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [i686-linux-3.9.11p-unRAID] (local build) Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org /dev/md6: Unable to detect device type Please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary root@Tower:~# Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Password: Linux 3.9.11p-unRAID. root@Tower:~# smartctl -a /dev/md6 smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [i686-linux-3.9.11p-unRAID] (local build) Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org /dev/md6: Unable to detect device type Please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary root@Tower:~# You want to do smartctl -a /dev/sdx (where x is the drive letter) You can see it from the unRaid main screen Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 root@Tower:~# smartctl -a /dev/md6 smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [i686-linux-3.9.11p-unRAID] (local build) Copyright © 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org /dev/md6: Unable to detect device type Please specify device type with the -d option. Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary root@Tower:~# Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 You want to do smartctl -a /dev/sdx (where x is the drive letter) You can see it from the unRaid main screen root@Tower:~# smartctl -a /dev/md6 /dev/sd(?) is not /dev/md(?) Look at the unraid main GUI screen. Find the line that has disk 6 in it. Find in that line the reference to /dev/sd?. Run the smartctl command using the appropriate letter with /dev/sd(?) instead of the ?. Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Got it this time. Thank you for your patience with me. Disk 6 report is attached Disk_6_SMART_log.txt Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 Disk6 has a lot of reallocated sectors. I'd replace the drive and rebuild disk6. Then run preclear on the disk. I don't think it will pass. How are you sitting down? The system was not shutdown correctly. Improper shutdowns cause parity checks on startup which will slow performance considerably. The numerous read errors on disk6 also slows performance. Before rebuilding disk6 post SMART reports for the rest of the disks. Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 I've suffered several unexpected power cuts and with no UPS the server has suffered several unclean shutdowns. It's also running a little too hot (we're in peak summer now), so I need to shut it down to move it to a cooler part of the house. I'll fit a UPS at the same time. The drive temps range from 35 deg C to 43 deg C (43 = 104 deg F) SMART log is attached for all disks. Thank you for your time looking at this. SMART_log_-_all_disks.txt Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Other disks look ok. Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 So it sounds like you're saying all my disks are ok, except disk 6 which I should probably replace. Have I understood right ? Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I'm not certain if disk six is dead. It has a high reallocated sector count and this is a strong indication of impending failure. I would replace it with a pre-cleared spare and the run pre-clear of the disk. If the disk can survive 3 pre-clear passes then I'd use it but keep monitoring. Quote Link to comment
puma1824 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 I believe I'm having similar issues as the original poster. Any suggestions? thanks in advance Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I replaced disk 6 a while ago, server is running well. But the original l problem still exists. Any suggestions ? Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Try cache_dirs: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4500.0 Quote Link to comment
MPR Files Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I've had Cache Directories v1.6.7 -4jr running for about 6 months. But the problem still occurs. I've checked in control_panel and cache_dir is running ok. Quote Link to comment
Russ Uno Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Just upgraded to V6.1, all went smoothly, parity check 106-155 MB/s, but I am have extremely slow Read Speeds and currently doing a back up of my OSX system drive and it very, very slow compared to V5.0.4... This is from OSX 6.8 so it is not just the newer OS's. I'm only 1/8 into the backup after 28 minutes and normally it would have been done around 20 minutes. I may have to go back to V5 if this can't be resolved. I'm now stuck with letting it finish, if I cancel I loss that backup and I can't work on this computer while this is going on. This is on my backups server. studioserver-syslog-20150909-1100.zip Quote Link to comment
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