My Cloud Never Sleeps

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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My Clould drive just never sleeps - I have Remote Access turned off, too. I also made sure no devices are connected to it including my iPhone. Here is my results for “top” via SSH:

top - 18:15:09 up 15 min, 1 user, load average: 6.41, 7.53, 5.68
Tasks: 94 total, 1 running, 93 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.3 us, 2.0 sy, 3.2 ni, 0.0 id, 94.4 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 232320 total, 186176 used, 46144 free, 10112 buffers
KiB Swap: 500672 total, 120320 used, 380352 free, 31424 cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6868 root 20 0 45760 13m 4800 S 7.6 6.0 0:38.74 wdmcserver
7747 root 39 19 3840 3008 832 D 2.0 1.3 0:09.06 du
8168 root 20 0 4352 3648 1664 R 0.7 1.6 0:00.16 top
1 root 20 0 3264 1408 1152 S 0.0 0.6 0:08.91 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpu1_hotplug_th
4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.38 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.25 kworker/0:0
7 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
8 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.51 kworker/1:0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.32 ksoftirqd/1
11 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/u:1
37 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.17 kworker/1:1
230 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers
232 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bid-default

Anyone have success getting their drive to fall asleep?

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Need to know what version of firmware? Do the following:
“ls -l /tmp/browse.dat”
“stat /etc/samba/smbpasswd”

The dates and times on these files should not be the current date and time. Samba has a problem where it either rewrites browse.dat or changes the permission of the smbpasswd file
multiple time per minute. Anolther option is to use the following mount command.
“mount -o remount,noatime,nodiratime /dev/root /”
It has been found that the OS changed the date on files as they are accessed. So setting noatime and nodiratime helps.

RAC

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Thank you for the reply, I am running on firmware v04.04.02-105 and for

“ls -l /tmp/browse.dat”
“stat /etc/samba/smbpasswd”

the files have the current date but not the current time. I did try the mount command - hopefully that works.

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For the stat command you need to look at the third time stamp.

RAC

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Hi Rac, here is the output from stat on 2/16/2016 @10:48PM:

stat /etc/samba/smbpasswd
File: `/etc/samba/smbpasswd’
Size: 104 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 901h/2305d Inode: 110231 Links: 1
Access: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2016-02-14 18:01:54.000000000 -0800
Modify: 2015-12-28 12:03:04.000000000 -0800
Change: 2016-02-14 18:01:54.000000000 -0800
Birth: -

Any other ideas I can try?

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You could also stop the wdmcserverd process. This process has been known to cause
the My Cloud not to sleep.

RAC