I’m the person that started the thread “Plex DB doubled in 10 days”. I have been watching this issue and it hasn’t been fixed - I haven’t tested it against the latest release yet.
There are some workarounds which I haven’t chosen to implement because I want to keep testing it and see if it actually gets fixed. But there was a procedure done by one of the posters in that thread that stopped the problem for him - see this post the third paragraph.
I believe this doesn’t happen unless you have clients that aren’t signed into the plex.tv servers. Only my clients not signed in are causing the balooning of entries in statistics_media. If you just want it to stop try these things:
- Follow “philipsw’s” suggestions in the post I mention above
- Make sure all your clients are signed in
- You could try disabling your DLNA server if you aren’t using, some have suggested it can exacerbate these problems
I plan to every 4-6 weeks clean up my database and upgrade to the latest, then watch it again to see if it is continuing. So on purpose I continue to do the things I know cause the problem so I can be the “canary in the coal mine” on this problem. Otherwise I’d just give up and sign all my clients in and do the stuff philipsw suggested. And believe me, I’ve thought about it. But it would be really good to see this bug fixed, it is a NASTY one for those it affects!
