I have some issues where MC is unresponsive when I start using it, and I suspect that at least part of that issue is that my unRAID server spins down my disks after 15 minutes of inactivity. unRAID is unique in that it can spin down only the non-active discs, leaving any disc in use still spinning. So, if I finish watching a movie, or show, and it goes back to Theater View, or any view really, it would need to poll all the discs again, most of which would be sleeping at that point, causing lag. I suppose I could change the timeout to an hour, or 3 to keep them awake longer.
I'm wondering if anyone else uses unRAID, and if they suffer the same initial usage/startup lag I'm seeing, and if so, have they come up with any clever way to overcome this issue?
I believe I can set the server to sleep when inactive, and can force it awake whenever any computer connects to the network. I wonder if I could modify that ability to force discs to spin up when any computer connects?
unRAID has a "cachedirs" script which continually polls the drives for the directory structure to keep all that information in memory, so browsing the drives should always be fast/instant, but I was told "If windows explorer is showing thumbnails or previews of the files, it will need to spin up the disk to provide these. I believe if you display your files in list view this will not be the case."
I'm just trying to figure out a way to make this work better in my case.
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Topic: Who else uses an unRAID server (or any server that spins down discs)? (Read 2486 times)