Concelor Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 (edited) Let me start by saying this forum has been a god sent The members here helped me when I first started getting into Unraid and VMs And through my early post and following threads I solved and learned a lot about my own rig and Unraid But I've come to a point where I"m stuck again, and need the experts advice The last year I have had a rock solid Win 10 VM on my box, but over the last few months been trying to play a few games (Tales of Berseria and Neir) recently and noticed super lag, basically the characters and other aspects of the game are moving like they are wading through pudding. Diving deeper, other oddities that have become the norm such as flash animations are coming to a screeching halt are starting to look more like symptoms of a big problem, and "confirming" my fears 3Dmark is rating my system at 1700!! Over the last few weeks I've dug deep into various threads about performance and gaming pass though here but none of the advice (from making sure hyperthreading is on, to reducing the number of CPU cores and RAM, to isolating the CPUs) seem to improve performance at all Staring at this stuff for weeks, everything is blending together, If anyone has any suggestions I"m willing to try anything at this point System: Unraid: 6.34 M/B: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. - M5A99FX PRO R2.0 CPU: AMD FX™-8320 Eight-Core @ 3500 GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB Memory: 32 GB (max. installable capacity 32 GB) Kernel: Linux 4.9.30-unRAID x86_64 SYSLINUX default /syslinux/menu.c32 menu title Lime Technology, Inc. prompt 0 timeout 50 label unRAID OS menu default kernel /bzimage append isolcpus=4,5,6,7 initrd=/bzroot label unRAID OS GUI Mode kernel /bzimage append isolcpus=4,5,6,7 initrd=/bzroot,/bzroot-gui label unRAID OS Safe Mode (no plugins, no GUI) kernel /bzimage append isolcpus=4,5,6,7 initrd=/bzroot unraidsafemode label unRAID OS GUI Safe Mode (no plugins) kernel /bzimage append initrd=/bzroot,/bzroot-gui unraidsafemode label Memtest86+ kernel /memtest Win10 VM: <domain type='kvm' id='1'> <name>Windows 10</name> <uuid>598f11fa-8da7-a59f-301d-af28c9b65d75</uuid> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 10" icon="windows.png" os="windows10"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>17301504</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>17301504</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='4'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='5'/> <vcpupin vcpu='2' cpuset='6'/> <vcpupin vcpu='3' cpuset='7'/> </cputune> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-1.4'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/598f11fa-8da7-a59f-301d-af28c9b65d75_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough'> <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='1'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/cache/Windows 10/vdisk1.img'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdc' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <alias name='virtio-disk2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/disks/WDC_WD10EACS_07D6B0_WD_WCAU43599175/Main/vdisk2.img'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdd' bus='virtio'/> <alias name='virtio-disk3'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/disks/WDC_WD10EACS_07D6B0_WD_WCAU43599175/Main/vdisk3.img'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hde' bus='virtio'/> <alias name='virtio-disk4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/disks/Samsung_SSD_840_EVO_250GB_S1DBNSCFA14644X/Windows 10/vdisk4.img'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdf' bus='virtio'/> <alias name='virtio-disk5'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/disks/Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_250GB_S21NNSAG729222N/Windows 10/vdisk5.img'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdg' bus='virtio'/> <alias name='virtio-disk6'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09' function='0x0'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='nec-xhci'> <alias name='usb'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'> <alias name='pci.0'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <alias name='virtio-serial0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:73:ab:f8'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/0'/> <target port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </serial> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/0'> <source path='/dev/pts/0'/> <target type='serial' port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <source 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<driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x12' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0c' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x12' function='0x2'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev3'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0d' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x14' function='0x5'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0e' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x16' function='0x0'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev5'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0f' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <driver name='vfio'/> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x16' function='0x2'/> </source> <alias name='hostdev6'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x10' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <memballoon model='virtio'> <alias name='balloon0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x11' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> <seclabel type='none' model='none'/> <seclabel type='dynamic' model='dac' relabel='yes'> <label>+0:+100</label> <imagelabel>+0:+100</imagelabel> </seclabel> </domain> Edited August 10, 2017 by Concelor Quote Link to comment
Concelor Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 So a new part of the mystery arose: While waiting for advice from the forum, I decided that maybe it was windows itself causing the hiccup; I did after all go from 8 to 8.1 to 10 without a clean install So i shut down my main slice, and built up a brand new slice 100GB on the SSD cache Installed the latest Nvidia drivers Installed 3Dmark (just to get an rough idea of performance) Started 3D mark test (Time Spy)...and it crashed I don't mean the program, i don't mean the VM instance, I mean the entire physical server locked up and had to do a hard reboot on it So now in my head I'm thinking "There must be a hardware issue" I ran Memtest86 (full test), no issues though I re-seated all the RAM just to make sure To crash the physical box there must be something up, unless 3mark is that poorly coded lol So I rebooted my box, and in a rage I modified the original VM slice to be a power hog: isolating CPU 0-1 for Linux use Pinning 2,3,4,5,6,7 all for the one windows slice I also for good measure gave it 28GB of RAM ...and you know what 3D mark at least ran, but gave me a score of 2023 but Tales of Berseria had very little slow down compared to before, though it still not playable So after all said and done, I'm now more loss, because my guy says I have a faulty hardware server that when you go against VM norms and over provision it works decently As always thanks in advance for the help I know will be coming for the VM guru Quote Link to comment
Concelor Posted August 17, 2017 Author Share Posted August 17, 2017 Another quick update, the server in terms of crashes is rock solid, but now no matter the game there is noticeable lag It's a real mystery Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 You could try a bare metal install of Windows on a separate disk and see if taking unRaid and VMs completely out of the equation has any effect. Your symptoms are strange, normally failing hardware crashes the machine, doesn't slow things down. Could it be a video card problem? Quote Link to comment
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