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I did the same thing also, updated my Xpenology box without the SSH command and my DSM version is also showing up as Update 7. All files and permission are intact. Strange! Another strange thing that I found out is that my real Synology box, a DS110j, does *NOT* show Update 7 when I checked for updates. It's currently at DSM 5.0-4493 Update 5 and according to the status, it is still up-to-date. Maybe the shell shock security issue doesn't affect ARM-based Synology NAS?

Super helpful link! Thanks, Shteve!

Cool! Found the link: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3497 I'll give this a go. Thanks for your tip and suggestion, XPEH.

Thanks, XPEH. I didn't realize that Virtualbox can be installed on top of DSM. Would you have the link for this? Also, how much does DSM degrade in a VM compared to bare metal?

Why? I want to run another VM for a service or software which unfortunately is not supported in XPE or Linux. And if there's a way that can be done without losing data then I wouldn't have to restore from backup.

While XPEnology has been working great in bare metal configuration for me so far (DSM 5.0-4493 U5), I'm looking to migrate to a virtual environment, with most probably ESXi, to run other VMs on the same hardware (Intel I3-4150). So do I start from scratch or can I migrate without losing data on the HDD in the bare metal config? Either way I will be doing a backup before hand, but a migration path obviously would be better. BTW, I've looked for guides in this forum but most are starting from scratch.

Sorry to revive an old thread but has this feature been tested, mff? Also, are these options added in the grub menu? And lastly, if this works could it work with nanoboot as well, provided that intel_idle driver is there?

Thanks for reporting this, but do you have any power numbers (idle/load)? The cpu performance is comparable if not better than J1900, although with higher TDP.

There's one more thing that you may be able to do, which is to install DSM with gnoboot 10.5 on a temporary setup or hard drive. Then you can extract powernow-k8.ko from/lib/module and save somewhere else (maybe the usb stick). As you re-install with nanoboot to the desired setup, import that file to /lib/module. I thought about this for mine but then I went with Intel and didn't go through that step.

jkm, yes I ran into the same problem that you saw: nanoboot doesn't include powernow-k8.ko and acpi-cpufreq could not be insmod'd during boot. I lived with it for a while but I saw an Intel deal I couldn't resist, a $30 G1820 (Haswell) from Microcenter. So I swapped my AMD setup for an Intel version (w/ a B85 mobo that also came on another deal). Essentially it has almost the same performance as the A8-3800 in terms of cpu benchmark but now I have acpi-cpufreq support. Using i7z from ipkg, I can see that cpu idle is using up to C6 now. The cpu performance is used for Plex support by the way. So the short answer is that I didn't solve the nanoboot issue with AMD CPUs. But have you looked at the power usage with a power meter? I had the AMD setup idle power almost equivalent to the Intel setup (27-28W no HDD), by undervolting cpu/mobo but the upper envelope (65W AMD TDP vs 54W Intel TDP) actually is more in AMD: mid-50W vs mid-40W (with 2xHDD).

benjistark, you might want to look into installing debian chroot and then install the fax package from the debian package list. There are a few so you would have to do your own research as to which one suits your needs: http://packages.debian.org/stable/comm/ BTW, the easiest way for debian chroot installation is from the Synocommunity package source. http://packages.synocommunity.com

Raidersan, what is the logic behind using the SSD? Isn't it also on the same SATA controller which is supposed to spin down all the disks in hiberation? The reason I'm asking is because I'm running into the same hibernation issue with Plex and I'm definitely interested in your results. I've isolated the hibernation to just the Plex package through trial and error (turning off each installed package and watch for hibernation). I've also tried turning off all logs and DLNA in Plex, to no avail. Please post your finding once you have it.

Thanks, spammy. The information from the link works just fine.

You need a little manual work. Look in the other thread: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3052&start=510 The update works fine for me using this trick.

Does anybody have any link to a tutorial on using the Debian chroot package from the SynoCommunity package source? There's plenty of links for installing Debian on Synology boxes but the Syno package seems to make installation much easier. However, how do I use the package? I can see that it's installed in /volume1/@appstore/debian-chroot/ but when I run /volume1/@appstore/debian-chroot/var/chroottarget/usr/bin/apt-get I see the following message: ./apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: libapt-pkg.so.4.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Some environment variables need to be set? Thanks in advance.

Schnapps and berwhale, what are your idle power numbers? I'm patiently waiting for the new AMD Beema cpu (A8-6410) to come out to the market to replace my XPE rig with A8-3800 which is consuming 29W idle (HDD hibernated) and >50W full load (w/ plex and 2 HDD) in XPE. I don't think the idle power is optimized in XPE without proper driver to take advantage of the idle states. But the new Beema CPU looks to be really power efficient while having impressive benchmark (passmark=2367). The idle power is around 6W and 23W with full load (wow!): http://semiaccurate.com/forums/showpost ... stcount=36 http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu ... PU&id=2266 It's currently only in notebooks and mobile platforms but I'm hoping that it'll come to the traditional desktop platforms (AM1 ITX?).

Schnapps, you're the man! I just changed the cables and what do you know, 88MB/s upload and 113MB/s download in LAN Speed Test. I even tried a 1GB file transfer and got 98MB/s sustained transfer rate. I guess my self-made cables are good for only up to 10-11MB/s, which is Fast Ethernet but not Gigabit Ethernet. Good thing I wasn't really doing any serious file storage. Now onto the rest of my cabling in the house and finishing up the Xpenology box with another 3TB HDD. BTW, still struggling with HDD spindown but that's less critical than getting good network speed. Thanks a bunch, Schnapps!

Thanks for the suggestion. Admittedly, most of my cables are self-made using 300ft+ bulk Cat5e cables and RJ45 connectors. But switching cables around does change the data rate reported by the speed check tool. So I'm ordering real cables, with Cat6 and probably more professionally made, to see if they make any difference.

Assuming you've installed ipkg already, use it to install a package called cpupower. After installation, you should see cpufreq-set and cpufreq-info under /opt/sbin. Use cpufreq-set to set power governors, which I set to ondemand to set cpu frequency to minimum during idle and ramp up to max during load. Use cpufreq-info to check the cpu information such as current frequency. Another useful tool is powertop which let you monitor the cpu idle states. This can also be installed with ipkg. Actually, I just went through all this myself to implement power saving for my AMD based rig and have posted questions on this forum. Therefore I'm very interested to see your results if you don't mind posting them using the above tools for your Intel rig. By the way, you should have acpi-freq, speedstep, or EIST drivers installed for power saving. Powernow-k8 is available for AMD cpu in gnoboot 10.5 but I'm not sure about Intel drivers. EDIT: I assumed that your rig is Intel based but that might not be the case. If it's not, powernow-k8 driver is available for gnoboot but not seen in nanoboot.

Some update and perhaps a conclusion to this post. I gave up fiddling with C-states, and ended up undervolting the CPU by 200mV, and the NB by 150mV. That brought my idle power to ~35W and hopefully with disk spindown it should be about ~30mW. Such a shame that C6 is not being utilized though, since it can potentially bring the CPU voltage down to 0V.

I'm seeing a very slow transfer rate between my Windows 8.1 PC and the Xpenology NAS, at ~11MB/s. So using a Windows tool called LAN Speed Test, I see upload (PC -> NAS) at 11MB/s but download (NAS -> PC) is around 100MB/s. If I do this same test with another PC (also Win 8.1) on the network, upload and download are around 60-70MB/s. The question is, does this result mean that the gigabit NIC on the NAS is ok and the bottleneck is in the hard drive in the NAS? What can I do? Some details regarding my Xpenology setup: CPU: AMD A8-3800 MB: Gigabyte GA-A75M-D2H with 6 SATA3 ports Memory: 4GB DDR3 1600 HDD: 1TB WD Blue set as single SHR volume DSM version: Bare metal 5.0 - 4458 Update 2 with Gnoboot 10.5 I've tried setting the onboard SATA controller as AHCI as well as Native IDE and the results are the same. Also, the network interface in DSM does show Gigabit connection.

After poking around some more, I found that my motherboard has a BIOS version that supports the C6 idle state and so I went ahead and flashed that version. With more reading, I also found that the cstate is supported or handled by ACPI, not by powernow module (or so it seems). Does anybody know how to get ACPI working? Specifically, how do I know if ACPI=on and CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR is enabled in the kernel? From what I've been reading so far, this will use ACPI for cpu idle states. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Fellow Xpenologists, Has anybody gotten the powernow-k8.ko module to work with their AMD CPU, in terms of power saving? I've been playing around with my setup and did not see any power saving. Here's the setup: cpu: AMD A8-3800 mobo: GA-A75M-D2H FM1 A75 boot loader: gnoboot alpha 10.5 on USB stick DSM: 5.0-4458 update 2 HDD: 1TB WD blue After much reading from the forum, I inserted the powernow-k8.ko in /lib/modules/ with insmod and installed cpufreq-utils to run cpufreq-set. With the ondemand scaling governor, the CPU is read from /proc/cpuinfo as 800MHz for all 4 cores during idle and will jump to 2.4GHz with load. *BUT* the kill-a-watt reading barely moves at 39-40 watts, at min and max CPU frequencies. Am I missing something? By the way, I've made sure that the BIOS has AMD Cool'n'Quiet enabled. This has been driving me crazy for the last few days. I must also add that this same setup was previously used as an HTPC consuming ~29W in idle in Windows 7 Ultimate, with an optical drive as well. Thanks in advance for any insights or suggestions.