Final update. Been using the updated system for 26 days now since my last post and about a month since I did the upgrade. Everything is running super smoothly. Speeds are way up, no more pausing. So, now that I have hammered the daylights out of this system for a month now and not 1 slowdown... super happy!
It's so responsive now that when I am hammering the array I can actually hear for the first time drive seek noises coming from a bunch of drives as they scream in the data. Never heard that before - it was so slow before there was no need. But 40 drives all seeking around and super fast access times... it sounds like my single 10,000 Velociraptor I had years ago under heavy seek. LOL! But, the speeds are great!
Thought I would update and let you know, for me, this issue is closed as working. Something so simple as an update solved all sorts of problems.
Of course, the updates were not without a couple of glitches. My apache had to be fixed as PHP was also upgraded but that was a quick fix. Also, something else was fixed...
QEMU - if I hammered the daylights out of a VM with super heavy disk load and prime 95 and occt testing the VM is would sometimes crash. Now, I have multiple VM's running 24/7 and had them under prime 95 and occt ... so happy, I upgraded the ram to 32GB GSkill 3200Mhz for my Ryzen 2700x and rock solid serving hundreds of terabytes flawlessly.
I was even able to migrate one of my desktop machines into the server. So now, 1 less machine running 24/7... it's all running on the server.
So, solved all sorts of problems. Thank you for this post pushing me to "just do it"
Always scared of updates. I did clone the SSD using DD booting off a USB stick before upgrading. Always have backups
David Perry
Perry Computer Services
(Canada)