/proc/net/dev counts octets; the field is named rx_bps, vvFmtBps renders Kb/s
and Mb/s, and the Monitor card prints it directly under the NIC link speed from
/sys/class/net/*/speed, which genuinely is megabits. So the one figure you would
read against the link understated traffic eightfold — 811 KB/s shown as "0.8
Mb/s" beside a 10 Gb/s link when it was 6.5. Converted at the source so the
field name stops lying; both consumers are bit-labelled or relative.
PHP defaults to UTC on Unraid while every bash script stamps local time, and the
two write into the same files — conf_changes.log was four hours out from every
log you would correlate it against. The parsing half was worse: vv_ai_syslog_ts()
reads local-time syslog lines through strtotime() under UTC, landing every event
four hours early, and the repair sweep bounds its scan to "since the last pass"
— so a fault that had just happened could read as four hours old and fall
outside the window. Also fixes date-string comparisons against bandwidth and
cleanup dbs, which bash writes with local dates.
The page multiplies its core count by the RW_LOAD_* multipliers to colour the
load bar, and resource_watchdog.sh computes its real thresholds from nproc. The
page preferred the API's physical core count — 16 against 32 threads — so it
turned amber at load 32 and red at 48 while the watchdog did not reach soft
pressure until 64 or medium until 96. A page whose whole job is reporting what
the watchdogs think was reporting a crisis about a machine they considered idle.
The remote path already sent the partner's own nproc, so both nodes now agree.
docker stats sums CPU across every logical processor, so Jellyfin's "227%" is
2.3 threads busy — 7% of a 32-thread host, which is what Unraid shows and what
the operator was reading. The card was printing the raw figure and colouring it
against thresholds meant for a percentage, so ordinary background work looked
like an emergency; I twice flagged Jellyfin as pegged on that basis and was
wrong both times. Divides by nproc, not the watchdog's `cores` — that field is
the physical 16 because it compares load averages, and borrowing it here would
have looked reasonable and doubled every reading.
A partner's Emby URL is http://localhost:8096 — true there, meaningless here —
so nobody queries a partner's media server directly. Each host reports its own
over the SSH call remote_arr_cache_writer.sh already makes, which keeps its API
keys on it and costs no extra connection. Local is the default: opening the tab
to check your own server should not first make you read past a partner's.
A partner with no cache is stated as not collected rather than omitted, because
an empty mesh view and a partner that is down look identical otherwise.
The counts need the entire library downloaded to compute six numbers — 16.0 MB
from Radarr and 5.5 MB from Sonarr, measured — and they were on the same
one-minute clock as queue depth and health, which pulled ~30 GB a day out of the
arrs to re-count records that had not changed. They now cache for fifteen
minutes against how often the numbers actually move: 7.6s to 3.0s per refresh.
Emby and Jellyfin get a card each: version, CPU, memory, uptime, streams, users
and transcodes, with update/restart flags. Two halves of one question — a server
answering happily at 145% CPU is a different situation from one at 8%, and
neither the app nor the container says so alone.
The media jobs row I just added formats durations with _dur(), which the rsync
page defines locally and js/varaverk.js does not export at all. The reference
threw inside _render(), the fetch's catch reported it as "Error loading arrs
status", and the whole page went blank — nothing to do with the API, which was
returning valid JSON throughout.
play_state_sync, media_shares_permissions and media_cleaner work on the same
files the arrs manage and were visible only by opening the Scheduler and reading
an orchestrator's log. Readable at all because run_orch_child() now writes a run
record and a per-script log for its children — this could not have been written
yesterday. Each card shows the sentence the script itself ended on rather than a
count re-derived here, since the three word their outcome differently and the
wording is the part worth reading.
Everything a child printed was interleaved into the parent's log with forty
other scripts, separated only by human headings that map to no script id — so
scoped_log could answer for ten orchestrators and nothing else. tee rather than
a redirect, so the parent keeps receiving exactly what it did before and this
only adds a destination; PIPESTATUS[0] preserves the child's exit code through
the pipe. Trimmed to 1000 lines like run_job.sh does, because LOG_DIR is tmpfs
and an untrimmed chatty script spends RAM. Falls back to the original unpiped
call when the log cannot be opened — a child must never be denied a run because
somewhere to write about it could not be created.
run_job.sh records the ten jobs cron starts; the seventy entries inside the
*_SCRIPTS lists had none, and nothing said so. Consumers quietly got less — arr
cleanup stats fell through to a daily aggregate with no end time, and
troubleshoot answered "I cannot see a run record" for every script that is not
an orchestrator, which is nearly all of them and exactly the ones a question is
about. run_orch_child() already had the start time, exit code and severity
ladder; it just never wrote them down. Not run_job.sh itself: that also locks
and interval-gates, which would let a child skip itself or block on its parent.
The arr cleanups are entries in DAILY_MAINTENANCE_SCRIPTS, which the orchestrator
invokes with plain bash, so they never get the run record the primary parse needs
— every payload has come from the daily aggregate db. That path read every column
except the byte counts, leaving orphans_sz at its "0B" default, which is
invisible at zero orphans and would have read "12 orphans (0B)" the first time
there were any. 'total' had no source there and no reader anywhere, so it is gone.
Arr Sync now reads "disabled" rather than "never run" when its switch is off.
Health messages go straight from each arr's API into innerHTML and quote things
nobody here controls — indexer names from Prowlarr, import-list names, release
titles. The page used no escaping at all. _sz() was also binary while labelling
its output TB, so /tv read 86.9 TB here and 95.6 TB on every other tab; it has
one caller and that caller is disk capacity, so it now matches the rest.
Retyping two paths and nine checkboxes correctly every time is where the
mistakes come from, and "one-off" described how a transfer is scheduled rather
than how often it is run. Pinned entries are exempt from the rotation — the
command used twice a year is both the most worth keeping and the first that ten
ordinary runs evict. Stored server-side, so the list is there from any screen,
and loading one fills the form and stops rather than running it.
--stats prints "Total transferred file size: 1,234,567 bytes", so $NF is the
unit word; stripping non-digits from it left an empty string and ""+0 is 0.
Every transfer ever logged recorded zero. Nothing looked broken — the history
filled with 1,423 correct rows all reading 0, the graph drew a flat line, and
DIGEST_SMART_ON_BANDWIDTH could never fire because 0 is never above 50GB.
Both parse sites now share one program, since fixing either alone would have
left the other silently wrong.
The preview ended in the literal text "…src host:dst", so the one thing worth
checking before pressing Run — the real source and destination, and which of
them has the trailing slash — was the one thing never shown. --delete sat
unmarked among nine checkboxes with no confirmation on a card that can remove
data on the far host. Confirm fires only for --delete without --dry-run, so it
stays worth reading.
last_sync reads the maintenance orchestrators' run records, and those do git
pull, permissions, cleaners and docker updates on schedule whether or not the
global gate is open — so the page reported a healthy 56-minute "daily sync"
while nothing had transferred since 16 July. Both cards also compared status
against 'success' while being fed 'ok', so every clean run rendered in the
failure colour. Adds the assistant, scoped to the tab.
Every existing exemption lasts until someone remembers to undo it, and nobody
does — Healarr has sat in a pressure list since it was uninstalled and seven
ignore entries name containers that are gone. A mute states when it ends and
then ends, capped by WATCHDOG_MUTE_MAX_HOURS so temporary is enforced rather
than intended. Applied where IGNORE_MAP is built, so all five check sites
inherit it, and shown with its countdown because an invisible suppression is
the thing being fixed.
Without it the page renders zeros, all-clear pills and green dots when the
orchestrator has stopped entirely — its healthiest appearance describing a
machine with no watchdogs, against a header promising absence is never drawn as
an all-clear. The heartbeat already existed; overdue is measured against the
cron schedule rather than an assumed fifteen minutes.
Half the hard-pressure stop list is containers that are not installed, so at
level 3 it sheds half the memory the card implies. Badged on the lists where a
dead entry costs something and deliberately not on Scan ignore, where ignoring
something already gone is the point — a card of dashed pills by design would
teach the eye to skip the badge where it has to be believed.
A fourth candidate source beside the arrs, the system log and container logs:
skip-listed containers, strikes past their limit, repeated restarts, unattended
reboots and sustained pressure become findings. The kind is deliberately not
conf-bound, so it cannot autofix by construction rather than by a switch — and
WATCHDOG_SCAN_IGNORE suppresses it, so a knowingly broken container stays quiet.
First consumer AI_ASSIST_WATCHDOG has ever had.
Both the reader and the writer ran to the first closing paren, which is only the
array's own close if nothing inside contains one. HOST1_WATCHDOG_SCAN_IGNORE has
carried "(exit 127 — bad image)" for weeks: writes spliced into the middle of it
and were refused by bash -n with a bare false, and reads returned the entries
above it — the Rsync tab showed no intermediate scripts at all and 10 of 17
daily. Arrays now close on a ) that starts its own line, as confform already did.
It is the setting people arrive looking for — the one that takes a container out
of the watchdog's hands rather than tuning what it does with it. Its hint says
so, because it silences a real fault as readily as a noisy one.
Tier 1 limits, both pressure lists and Required get add, remove and adjust on
the page that shows what they did. Per-entry comments are carried through the
rebuild rather than regenerated — they hold the reason for every number.
The tab collected over SSH on every 30s poll — 8.3s a load with HOST2 down.
vv_parse_conf_scalar() captured to end of line, so a commented toggle parsed as
"true # HOST2 back online": every threshold read right because (int) stops at
the first non-digit, and 38 booleans read wrong. The Fallback tab has been
showing failover disabled while it was on.
The page states what struck but never why, and the log that would say is the
orchestrator's, not one per watchdog. Why? opens troubleshoot against it —
read-only, because the page's contract is that it changes nothing.
.vv-ai-chat transitions its height, so measuring the dock straight after setting
it returns the height it is animating away from — the view was cut short for a
dock that had already shrunk, leaving the difference as dead panel underneath.
The API mixes units per field — memory in bytes, disk size in KiB, fsSize and
fsUsed in kB — and one helper was guessing which from the magnitude of the
number, which also read any memory total under 100 GB as KB.
Three # rules open most docs here, so the title became a section too small to
survive and the paragraph defining the project got a chunk with no heading.
The detector answers no to "why is my array so slow", so claiming that meant a
question about the wider world would have answered it from general web pages.
A paragraph beside the rule did not shift it; the ready-made refusal was simply
the nearest thing to hand, so the correction goes next to the question instead.
Chat was told it could not look anything up, which is true of this machine and
false the moment a search succeeds, so it deflected while holding six sources.
The map documents 447 settings, so without this every question about where a
control lives earns a proposal that costs a dismissal and teaches nothing.
Gmer4Lfe