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RN Ultra 6 - System Temp
Hi all, I have a ReadyNas Ultra 6 with 6 x 4TB WD Red HDD's and all working fine for a couple of years now and running on OS 6.10.5 Hotfix 1. Over the last few weeks I have noticed that the NAS ...
niallryan wrote:
Also I have noticed that the System Temp is always hovering between 71ºC and 73ºC - the CPU temp is always at 35ºC and each of the HDD's vary between 30ºC and 35ºC.
Your post title says you have the Ultra 6, but your model number choice is an Ultra 6 Plus. If you want to compare temps with other users, we'll need to clear up what you have.
The disk and CPU temps are fine, but system temp does seem high for an Ultra-6, hopefully Sandshark will chime in. I guess you could open the back, and see if there's a lot of dust in the case fan. But I think if you had a fan issue you'd be seeing higher disk temps.
niallryan wrote:
Over the last few weeks I have noticed that the NAS has been running pretty sluggish.
If you haven't tried rebooting, then I suggest doing that first.
I'd check the disk health. You can download the full log zip, and look at the SMART stats in disk_info.log, and look for errors generally in system.log and kernel.log. You could also run the disk test from the volume settings wheel (which will take a while).
If we can rule out the disks, then I'd suggest running a balance from the volume settings wheel. That can take a while too - though the longer it takes, the more it is needed.
niallryan wrote:I have a ReadyNas Ultra 6 with 6 x 4TB WD Red HDD's and all working fine for a couple of years now
WD40EFRX? Or WD40EFAX? Hopefully the former. The current WD Red line is all SMR, the current WD Red Plus line is CMR. The WD40EFRX is now in the Red Plus line.
How much memory do you have?
Hi StephenB,
My apologies - I actually have both but in this case it is the ReadyNas Ultra 6.
The ReadyNas (all) shutdown at about 2am and restart at 10am (my time GMT)
Disk Health seems to be good as no errors at all shoiwng for any of the drives.
Upon Looking for errors in the disk_info.log - I found none
The same with the kernel.log.
There were errors in the system.log - all refering to "apache" eg:
Sep 07 00:36:40 Ombiplex-2 apache2[11496]: [:error] [pid 11496] [client 192.168.1.128:65392] mod_csrf(020): request denied, expired id (26 sec), action=deny, id=-, referer: http://192.168.1.106/admin/index.html
There were a lot of failures for "snapperd" - eg:
Sep 07 01:00:06 Ombiplex-2 snapperd[14222]: loading 213 failed
The WD RED's are actually FYYZ !!
I will wait before running disk test and volume balancing in case the above tell you something or as you say Sandshark may jump in with something.
Thank you for the reply.
Regards
NJP
niallryan wrote:
The WD RED's are actually FYYZ !!
Those are not WD Reds. WD4000FYYZ are WD Re (datacenter) drives.
niallryan wrote:There were a lot of failures for "snapperd" - eg:
Sep 07 01:00:06 Ombiplex-2 snapperd[14222]: loading 213 failed
That does suggest some file system corruption - the NAS is trying to access snapshots, and is unable to. Not great, but I don't think it explains the performance issues.
niallryan wrote:
I will wait before running disk test and volume balancing in case the above tell you something or as you say Sandshark may jump in with something.
I'd proceed with the disk test.
The reported system temperature does rely on a sensor that can go bad. If dust at the sensor was the problem, it would typically be too low. But a poorly working fan can come into play.
The reported (and acted upon) temps also rely in the sensor configuration used by lm_sensors. So, let's make sure that's right. From ssh, execute
ls ./etc/sensors.d/ -all
You should see that is points to the ULTRA6 configuration:
system.conf -> /etc/frontview/sensors/ULTRA6.conf
Then do
cat /etc/frontview/sensors/ULTRA6.conf
And one of the sections should be:
label temp2 "System"
But here is something odd:
chip "coretemp-isa-0000"
label temp2 "CPU"
compute temp2 @%35, @%35I don't see % being a valid operator in lm_sensors. So, I think that's just assigning 35°C to be the reported CPU temperature, because either the chip doesn't really provide it or it's considered unreliable. That you say the CPU is "solid" at 35 seems to confirm that. So, perhaps restricted air flow or poor conduction between the CPU and it's heat sink are problematic.
I no longer have an Ultra6 and only ever used it as a backup, so I never really paid attention to the temperatures since they were never reported as too high. Maybe somebody else can let you know if the Ultra6 system temperature typically runs high.
Hi Sandshark ,
Many thanks for jumping on board.
The reported (and acted upon) temps also rely in the sensor configuration used by lm_sensors. So, let's make sure that's right. From ssh, execute
ls ./etc/sensors.d/ -all
I logged into the NAS in question and entered the command above and got the "No such file or directory" response.
Regards
NJP
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