Are there any plans to release a 64-bit version of PMS? If so, just out of curiosity, why is that?
I have never heard of such. Plex has always said that in tests there is no real gain going to a 64 bit version.
Most of any slowdowns I have observed in Plex have had disk i/o or network congestion as the cause and having a 64 bit version will not make those better.
64-bit does open the 4G memory barrier and does provide for some faster parallel processing. I know Plex Server does not use much memory, but if the app was moved to 64-bit, then Plex Server could cache the videos, hopefully making the playback smoother, especially if there is transcoding happening.
For caching, a lot of people use a Ramdisk instead; which would have the same end result.
I thought it was 64-bit already on many of the NAS and Linux platforms.
I seem to remember years ago on Windows people talking about their programs becoming more stable automatically after moving to 64-bit because of the way Windows or the CPU manages things on the 64-bit side to sandbox everything a little better.
File caching is a task for the operating system. Which is in 64 bit.
And it does this already, automatically. The more RAM you have in your machine, the more is used for file caching – provided there are no other tasks running which consume lots of RAM.
Besides: playback stuttering or pausing has in the majority of cases nothing to do with your hard drives being too slow.
So a bigger file cache, or even a RAM drive, won’t do anything to improve that.
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