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hajo_s
Oct 05, 2015Aspirant
Streaming timeout on 104?
Hello community, Since recently - I suspect since firmware update 6.2.5 - my 104 disconnects streaming sessions after 30 minutes. I have turned off harddisk spin down to test but it still disconn...
- Oct 07, 2015
After further investigation I'm pretty sure now that those periodic cleanup scripts kill the streaming. I'm not exactly sure where php5 comes from -- is this a package originally bundled by Netgear or did I do something silly and installed it? I personally don't need it; unless another app I installed requires it. But since my apps are gone, I could remove php as well.
I have meanwhile changed the cron tab entry to run once a day when I sleep.
So thx once again Jenn, your guess about load was correct at the end :) Well, I learned my lesson. A Netgear 104 NAS is a NAS, not a full-blown Linux box. Can live with that...
hajo_s
Oct 07, 2015Aspirant
Thx Jenn,
I'll check in the next days. Will turn off apps although I'm not sure that helps -- the disconnect happens after exactly 30 minutes every time, reproducible. Also, I don't have any heavy load apps (e.g. virus scan) scheduled for the time I stream. Tests will show :)
The box has the same IP assigned by the router all the time, it can't change. And I did reset the media player after timeout, the problem repeated 30mins later.
Anyway, thx again. Will test and report back...
JennC
Oct 07, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hello hajo_s,
You may also try updating to the latest firmware version.
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29938
Regards,
- hajo_sOct 07, 2015Aspirant
Thx Jenn. Just did upgrade the FW, removed apps and tested. Problem persists. Then I remembered there's a way to download all the log files, so I went through them and tried to match time stamps to disconnects. I figure the media player buffers for a bit - then I found events happening every time some 2 minutes before a disconnect:
cron.log:
Oct 07 21:39:01 Saturn CRON[6677]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean /var/lib/php5 $(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime))
(repeated every 30mins)
and with this onviously every 30mins in system.log:
Oct 07 21:39:01 Saturn CRON[6676]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Oct 07 21:39:01 Saturn CRON[6677]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean /var/lib/php5 $(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime))
Oct 07 21:39:03 Saturn CRON[6676]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user rootAnd with it also the respective entry in systemd-journal.log
moreover, but probably unrelated, after a disconnect I created the log file archive and afterwards see in systemd-journal.log another error:
Oct 07 21:54:34 Saturn readynasd[3531]: head: cannot open `/sys/kernel/config/target/iscsi/*/tpgt*/lun/lun*/lun*/info' for reading: No such file or directory
Oct 07 21:54:35 Saturn readynasd[3531]: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Oct 07 21:54:35 Saturn readynasd[3531]: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Oct 07 21:54:35 Saturn readynasd[3531]: Error: Connection failure: Connection refusedThats all all the suspicious activity I find in the logs. Any clue? Thx again :)
- hajo_sOct 07, 2015Aspirant
After further investigation I'm pretty sure now that those periodic cleanup scripts kill the streaming. I'm not exactly sure where php5 comes from -- is this a package originally bundled by Netgear or did I do something silly and installed it? I personally don't need it; unless another app I installed requires it. But since my apps are gone, I could remove php as well.
I have meanwhile changed the cron tab entry to run once a day when I sleep.
So thx once again Jenn, your guess about load was correct at the end :) Well, I learned my lesson. A Netgear 104 NAS is a NAS, not a full-blown Linux box. Can live with that...
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