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  1. Is this to the pool or to the child drives? I have 34 drives into one pool drive - what letters is it going to hide?
  2. Drashna, I see a new option in the beta - "Toggle Drive Letter" Can you explain what this does? Is it for the pool drive letter or for the individual drive letters that are added to the pool?
  3. So update for all, it seems that the REFS driver uses a lot of memory when moving data onto a REFS drive. I've tested it - and unless you're saying it's hardware specific (i.e. my specific ASUS motherboard or my mouse driver...), on a clean install of Win10 x64, with 96gb of DDR4 and a beta install of Drivepool. When I move 3-4TB of data onto a REFS drive the mem usage climbs all the way up to 96gb. It resets when I reboot. And stays steady unless I start moving data to/from a REFS drive. So those folks not seeing memleaks, I suspect it's because they're not moving terabytes of data back/forth from/to REFS drives.
  4. Anyone find out if the REFS driver still causes a Memleak?
  5. I am getting a lot of these... Event ID 11 - driver detected an error on \Device\Raidport0. Like about a dozen or so....
  6. Drashna, can you explain how I can tweak the setting that Drivepool uses before they mark a disk as "missing?" I have a few Seagate disks that seemingly take forever to spin up and after a very short while, then Drivepool marks them as missing which of course puts the pool in read only mode. The only way I can get them live is to unplug the SAS/SATA cable while they've been powered up for a while, then plug it back in. Assuming there's activity, I don't have a problem, but I suspect once they spin down and Drivepool tries to write data again and they don't respond fast enough, then missing! I remember a tweak somewhere that can make this much longer before marked as missing. Additionally, do you know of a tweak - perhaps via scanner that doesn't allow these troublesome drives to spin down?
  7. Just a followup, Drashna, I noticed that Windows removed REFS from the optional formats. I suspected it was your program that was causing my memleak into a softlock. But, it was actually REFS when do a lot of balancing file/moving. For other readers, I have 34 drives in a single pool, duplicated. I was in the process of removing a drive, formatting it in REFS and then readding it. I did this about 13 times before I realized I was softlocking due to memory exhaustion. (It's usually an unstable overclock). I finally removed all the REFS drives and now maintain steady despite a lot of file movement/balancing around 16gb used total. My money is that REFS was the culprit.
  8. For anyone else in the same situation, deleting large files often bypass the Recycle Bin. And most of the standard free recovery software won't undelete files larger than 4gb. I used R-Tool Studio (cost $80) but was able to recover every file I had fat fingered delete (twice). I recommend: 1. Not deleting your stuff 2. If you do, use R-studio to recover
  9. Drashna, I do have 2 480gb SSDs (Sandisk Extreme Pros so not slow) as SSD optimizers. The problem is once the files are balanced on to the array they're painfully slow to manipulate, move, change, etc. I'd prefer to have fast read/write access to the Plex folder at all times - not only when adding to them.
  10. Drashna, would I make my system explode if I did the following: Create a Storage Spaces Array 8TB x 6 - give it a drive letter then add that to a pool with duplication? My goal is to have a fast, striped array for my media that I can write/read from but have that array duplicated automatically to the other remaining 3tb, 4tb, and 6tb drives. If that would work, then how would this work: I add a mkv file to my D drive, then copy it to the Storage Spaces Array lettered drive (that is inside a pool). Would it then automatically duplicate via Drivepool to one of the other 3tb, 4tb, and 6tb drives?
  11. I fat fingered something and the directory deleted. I have lost 1000 25gb+ .mkvs on a duplicated pool. I've stopped teh balancing but I need to recover these files. Any help please! I've looked at EASUS recover and piroforum's Recuvva but there not picking up anything bigger than 4gb.
  12. I'm hoping to have the last of my REFS drives removed from the pool this weekend. I plan on reinstalling Windows, only my essential programs (chrome, norton, etc.) then drivepool. I'll build a new pool with the evacuated drives and start copying my files over there and track memusage. Really don't want to go to Storage Spaces because I've been burned by RAID before but I can't have my system soft-lock every 6hrs either. (And upgrading to 128gb RAM is too expensive)
  13. So, am I reading, Chris, that you're experiencing what I'm experiencing? As I remove my REFS drives from my pool and I'm noticing the memleak isn't hitting as high. Right now it's stopping around 30gb RAM instead of maxing at 64gb and softlocking my system (I can move my mouse but not select anything).
  14. Following your instructions... I've added the bugbheck on registry. I have a 64gb page file enabled (no ramdisk) I hold the rightmost Ctrl key and hit scroll lock twice. Nothing.
  15. Drashna, sorry you guys are taking heat on reddit. That was not my intention. I simply want it fixed as a few family members use my Plex server (driven off of drivepool) and my system is maxing mem every 3-4hrs. Which often means their movie gets paused until I can reboot server. I tried the steps to cause a memdump (even with a pagefile) and it did not work. Hence the slow process of removing all REFS drives. Disabling the storage service seemingly worked but...alas...it didn't. I'm sitting at 63gb of RAM used right now.
  16. Drashna, just to keep you up to date, I'm at work now, remoting into my system. I stopped and disabled the "storage service" service and I'm 5 hours into removing a drive from the pool and have kept steady at 25gb RAM (I started it at 25gb RAM). Meaning, that could be one variable in my issue.
  17. Another link for reading. To lee1978 (what OS and cluster size are you using)? https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6f00re/storage_spaces_memory_leak_refs_file_system/ Here it's REFS leaking in Storage spaces. Guess MS recognized it then patched it but some claim patch didn't work. Another poster (fan of Drivepool) was seeing the same thing I am but identified it as subsystem of storage spaces?
  18. Drashna, as you know I've been struggling with the memleak issue so much that I considered switching to Storage Spaces. However, that product is quite confusing so I asked on the datahoarder subreddit and a user (that sounds knowledgeable) suggested that REFS might be the leak. And...this did start happening on/about the same time I converted to REFS. I'm going to remove each REFS drive individually and then readd as NTFS drives and report back to see if that's the issue. Here's the link. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6nlzwr/how_to_setup_up_windows_10_storage_spaces_118tb/
  19. Regarding the paging file, I suspected as much so I enabled a 64gb paging file on my Samsung 950Pro nVME. The system RAM still crept up and up until lock.
  20. Just keeping you updated, Drashna. Uninstalled Drivepool completely last night before bed. System has been up 12hours and only consumed 7.2gb RAM. It's definitely drivepool that is memleaking for me. I have to reinstall it eventually to try out Storage Spaces and move data. I will try again to provide a memdump for you.
  21. Don't want to completely uninstall Drivepool and look for a replacement but can't deal with the memleaks. I max out the full 64gb RAM every 3 hours that drivepool is balancing. Yes, I know you want a memdump but the process is convoluted and not user friendly. My last ditch effort will be to install the x86 version instead of the x64 version. Will this limit RAM usage to 4gb like x86 versions of windows limits? Or will I still face the inevitable memleak?
  22. Drashna, one other thing to consider that I'm testing, I had a RAM disk setup and no virtual paging file (it was set to 0). During balancing and there's a lot of that since I'm removing drives and formatting to REFS, perhaps it's using a lot of virtual memory that I don't have since I wanted it all to be used in RAM? I don't know. I'm not a programmer.
  23. Chris, I would love to provide that data but despite following the instructions in your wiki and previous posts, I can't get the system to crash and create a dump. Here's what I have done, disabled all my other start up programs and then gone by beta by beta and loaded it to see if the memory still leaks. I'm on .738 now and 2 hours into balancing I'm at 62gb RAM used. How far back can I go before I lose REFS support since about 1/4 of my drives are converted to REFS?
  24. Drashna, can someone smarter than me show me how to determine which program is memleaking? For the longest time I thought it was the Drivepool Beta. Then you guys fixed it and others said the problem was solved. However, I'm still within a few hours of balancing using all 64gb of RAM. That shouldn't be normal. I'm looking at Task Mananager as well as Resource Manager and can't notice any program using 50gb plus of RAM. Is there something I can do to determine the problem?
  25. I might have mispoke...I'll wait for others. Noticed two reboots today from max memory
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