I have the following setup:
- TrueNAS server that have SMB and NFS sharing the same folder (media files - video and audio) (IP 192.168.100.2)
- XCP-NG machine on which I run vms.
One of the vms is and ubuntu server 24.04 LTS that runs jellyfin media server and have the shared folder from TrueNAS mounted in /mnt/mediafolder as SMB share. Here is the fstab entry:
# SMB mounts from TrueNAS
//192.168.100.2/MediaFolder /mnt/mediafolder cifs user=jellyfin,password=password,uid=jellyfin,gid=jellyfin,ro,iocharset=utf8 0 0
The problem is that browsing on the mounted folder it is very slow almost unresponsive and in the logs I got this errors :
mediaserver kernel: CIFS: VFS: \192.168.100.2 has not responded in 180 seconds. Reconnecting..
Below si the log
Feb 16 11:20:01 mediaserver systemd[1]: sysstat-collect.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 16 11:20:01 mediaserver systemd[1]: Finished sysstat-collect.service - system activity accounting tool.
Feb 16 11:20:17 mediaserver systemd[1217]: launchpadlib-cache-clean.service - Clean up old files in the Launchpadlib cache was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExists=/home/jellyfin/.l>
Feb 16 11:22:33 mediaserver kernel: netfs: FS-Cache loaded
Feb 16 11:22:33 mediaserver kernel: Key type cifs.spnego registered
Feb 16 11:22:33 mediaserver kernel: Key type cifs.idmap registered
Feb 16 11:22:33 mediaserver kernel: CIFS: No dialect specified on mount. Default has changed to a more secure dialect, SMB2.1 or later (e.g. SMB3.1.1), from CIFS (SMB1). To use the less secure SMB1 dialect t>
Feb 16 11:22:33 mediaserver kernel: CIFS: enabling forceuid mount option implicitly because uid= option is specified
Feb 16 11:22:33 mediaserver kernel: CIFS: enabling forcegid mount option implicitly because gid= option is specified
Feb 16 11:22:33 mediaserver kernel: CIFS: Attempting to mount //192.168.100.2/SharedFolder
Feb 16 11:22:37 mediaserver PackageKit[8457]: daemon quit
Feb 16 11:22:37 mediaserver systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 16 11:22:44 mediaserver systemd[1]: Reloading requested from client PID 13306 ('systemctl') (unit session-1.scope)...
Feb 16 11:22:44 mediaserver systemd[1]: Reloading...
Feb 16 11:22:44 mediaserver systemd[1]: Reloading finished in 234 ms.
Feb 16 11:25:01 mediaserver CRON[13347]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by root(uid=0)
Feb 16 11:25:01 mediaserver CRON[13348]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Feb 16 11:25:01 mediaserver CRON[13347]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Feb 16 11:26:14 mediaserver kernel: CIFS: VFS: \\192.168.100.2 has not responded in 180 seconds. Reconnecting...
Feb 16 11:29:17 mediaserver systemd[1]: Starting systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of Temporary Directories...
Feb 16 11:29:18 mediaserver systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 16 11:29:18 mediaserver systemd[1]: Finished systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of Temporary Directories.
Feb 16 11:29:20 mediaserver kernel: CIFS: VFS: \\192.168.100.2 has not responded in 180 seconds. Reconnecting...
Feb 16 11:30:07 mediaserver systemd[1]: Starting sysstat-collect.service - system activity accounting tool...
Feb 16 11:30:08 mediaserver systemd[1]: sysstat-collect.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 16 11:30:08 mediaserver systemd[1]: Finished sysstat-collect.service - system activity accounting tool.
Feb 16 11:32:44 mediaserver kernel: CIFS: VFS: \\192.168.100.2 has not responded in 180 seconds. Reconnecting...
Feb 16 11:35:01 mediaserver CRON[13378]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by root(uid=0)
Feb 16 11:35:01 mediaserver CRON[13379]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Feb 16 11:35:01 mediaserver CRON[13378]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
Feb 16 11:35:51 mediaserver kernel: CIFS: VFS: \\192.168.100.2 has not responded in 180 seconds. Reconnecting...
Feb 16 11:38:57 mediaserver kernel: CIFS: VFS: \\192.168.100.2 has not responded in 180 seconds. Reconnecting...
Feb 16 11:40:14 mediaserver systemd[1]: Starting sysstat-collect.service - system activity accounting tool...
Feb 16 11:40:14 mediaserver systemd[1]: sysstat-collect.service: Deactivated successfully.
Feb 16 11:40:14 mediaserver systemd[1]: Finished sysstat-collect.service - system activity accounting tool.
The ping has the following results:
64 bytes from 192.168.100.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.529 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.692 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.730 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.2: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.785 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.2: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.697 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.2: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.642 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.100.2: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.700 ms
The NIC's on the 2 machines are 1GB
The curios thing is:
- I have the same specs vm on TrueNAS with same settings and no problem with that.
- I have a Fedora 41 vm on XCP-NG machine and no problem with the shared folder (is mounted as gvfs)
- I have no problems with the mount folder on the laptop (through wifi)
I tryed also to mount it using NFS with the same results, here are the settings for NFS: fstab entry:
# NFS mounts from TrueNAS
192.168.100.2:/mnt/Pool01/MediaFolder /mnt/mediafolder nfs defaults,rw,bg,soft,nosuid,timeo=10,vers=4 0 0
nfsstat info:
/mnt/mediafolder from 192.168.100.2:/mnt/Pool01/MediaFolder
Flags: rw,nosuid,relatime,vers=4.2,rsize=131072,wsize=131072,namlen=255,soft,proto=tcp,timeo=10,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=192.168.100.24,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.100.2
For NFS I could not find errors (or warnings) in the syslog but the same problem is present - slow to unresponsive system when browsing the folders form the NFS mount
How can I fix this? how to get more info from the logs? I suspect this can be a XCP-NG problem, but how to find the root cause? Thanks
