- #TRANSCODING THROTTLED PLEX MOVIE#
- #TRANSCODING THROTTLED PLEX MANUAL#
- #TRANSCODING THROTTLED PLEX TV#
Due to this behavior, the SD Card that came with the Pi simply couldn’t keep up, overheated and paused randomly middle of a heavy write sometimes. These data can be metadata, caches, and transcoded video data. Later down the road, I realized that Plex is a heavy storage usage application that reads and writes to the persistent layer at high frequency.
#TRANSCODING THROTTLED PLEX TV#
Your problem is that the download feature fills up the /transcode dir and as you limited it to 8GB, you can't solve this without making it much bigger.For the storage, in the beginning, I used a 1TB Seagate HDD as the home for all of my movies and TV Shows.
#TRANSCODING THROTTLED PLEX MANUAL#
Thats why I changed the manual as it became easier.īut finally this won't solve your problem. By that you could delete all your other changes like the script and the mounted container path as everything happens inside the container then. It would only use it, if you change /transcode to /tmp/PlexRamScratch in the transcode settings. By that you create the dir /tmp/PlexRamScratch inside of the container, which will be a ram disk inside of your container and as your plex server writes to /transcode, it won't use it. Thanks for spending the time to share all this info with everyone! Would this be enough to fix these new Download/transcode media files for local devices? runtime=nvidia -no-healthcheck -log-opt max-size=50m -log-opt max-file=1 -mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp/PlexRamScratch,tmpfs-size=8000000000 -restart unless-stoppedĬontainer Path: /transcode -> /tmp/PlexRamScratch So I guess this would be my new extra parameters of PLEX?:
runtime=nvidia -no-healthcheck -log-opt max-size=50m -log-opt max-file=1 -restart unless-stopped Mount -t tmpfs -o size=8g tmpfs /tmp/PlexRamScratch I then checked my RAM usage and it was +99% and in the "PlexRamScratch" folder (I use your script to create two dirs on tmp one for Plex & Emby Playback error - Not enough diskspace to convert this file/subject (Translating)
?Īnd I now have some issues after I enabled "download" option from Plex locally to a few family members iPad's they now get a error message stating: Hi think you made some changes to your guide since last time. The part about -no-healthcheck does that mean to block using the ssd as transcoding or quite what? can you elaberate by your point? "If you dislike permanent writes to your SSD". any way to make the cache folder appear in tmp as well? does that matter or quite what? Also the cache folder has appered in the plex appdata. However, the tmpfs is only filled up by 5%. Thank you it does seam to be using the ram Thank you for this, it seems to work in a quick test with 6 transcodes (3 4k and 3 1080p), will leave it this way for a while and see if everything keeps running smoothly
#TRANSCODING THROTTLED PLEX MOVIE#
If you stop the movie Plex will delete everything:īy this method Plex never uses more than 4GB RAM, which is important, as fully utilizing your RAM can cause an unexpected server behaviour. Transcoding to RAM-Disk works if "Use%" of /tmp is not "0%":įilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted onĪfter some time it fills up to nearly 100%:Īnd then Plex purges the folder automatically: Now enter this command while a transcoding is running: If you like to verify it's working, you can open the Plex containers Console: Now open Plex -> Settings -> Transcoder and change the path to "/tmp": Side note: If you dislike permanent writes to your SSD add " -no-healthcheck ", too.
By this guide Plex uses your RAM while transcoding which prevents wearing out your SSD.Įdit the Plex Container and enable the "Advanced View":Īdd this to "Extra Parameters" and hit "Apply":